%0 Journal Article %T A independ¨ºncia do Brasil em perspectiva historiogr¨¢fica %A de Mendon£¿a %A Sonia Regina %J Revista Pilquen %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X the paper contextualizes the peculiarities of brazilian political emancipation process, assuming three basic presuppositions: that it was a reasonably long process, over determined by imposition of hegemonic interest groups of southeast over the other regions; that the syntony between territory and state only acquired its configuration from a "inner expansion" and that its consolidation occurred since a conquest -military, political and cultural- whose basis was slavery. %K brazil %K southeast hegemony %K slavery. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1851-31232010000100009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en