O escopo deste artigo é problematizar os usos dos acervos documentais pelos intelectuais que escreveram sobre os limites interestaduais no antigo norte do Brasil ao longo da Primeira República. Em um contexto no qual a história era tida como verdade e o documento como prova, os acervos estaduais foram avaliados como instrumentos de poder.
Studying several stored documents: the issue of interstate boundaries and heuristics in the archives of the former north of Brazil
Abstract/Résumé/Resumen
The scope of this article is to problematize the uses of documentary collections by intellectuals who wrote about the issue of interstate boundaries in the former north of Brazil during the First Republic. In a context in which history was taken as truth and documents as proof, state collections were evaluated as instruments of power.
