Editora Milfontes

Editora Milfontes is a Brazilian publishing house headquartered in the municipality of Serra, in the state of Espírito Santo. It describes itself as a publisher of books aimed mainly at an academic audience, and its catalogue is concentrated in the humanities, with history as its strongest discipline. The company was founded in March 2017 by Bruno César Nascimento, and its first title was 'Do passado histórico ao passado prático: 40 anos de Meta-história', a volume arising from a meeting held at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) that debated the contributions of Hayden White's 'Metahistory' (1973). From its base in Espírito Santo — a state that, according to the publisher's own account, lacked a strong tradition in this kind of academic publishing — Milfontes built a catalogue with the support of friends and partners. Within roughly three years (2017–2020) it reached about 100 titles, with contributors from across Brazil and abroad. Its list spans multiple areas of the human sciences, including historiography, theory of history, communication, law, anthropology, memory studies, and regional history, but history remains the area of greatest concentration. Milfontes distributes its books throughout Brazil. Its main sales channels are Amazon Brasil and its own online store, where it sells print titles and also offers stationery and gift items. The publisher's website lists individual books with prices in Brazilian reais and highlights launches and promotions. Titles in the catalogue include works on the Guarani and Kaiowá suicide crisis, legal rituals in Brazilian courtrooms, nomadic cartographies in aesthetics and anthropology, the professionalization of Brazilian historiography, the memory of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, and the 40th anniversary of the Revista Brasileira de História. As a small, independent academic press, Editora Milfontes occupies a niche in Brazilian scholarly publishing: it serves researchers, graduate students, and readers interested in critical historiography and the humanities, often publishing collective volumes, essay collections, and methodological introductions. The company remains privately held and active, with Bruno César Nascimento identified as its founder and owner.

Editora Milfontes was founded in March 2017 by Bruno César Nascimento. Its inaugural work was 'Do passado histórico ao passado prático: 40 anos de Meta-história', a book that emerged from a meeting held at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES). That meeting focused on debates around the contributions of Hayden White's 'Metahistory' (1973), a landmark work in the philosophy of history. The choice of this title as the first publication signalled the publisher's orientation toward critical historiography and theoretical reflection. The project was launched with the support of friends and partners who believed in the creation of a publishing house dedicated to academic books in a state that, according to the publisher's own account, did not have a strong tradition in this type of publishing. From this starting point, Milfontes developed a working model that came to involve collaborators both in Brazil and abroad. In its first three years, from 2017 to 2020, the publisher built a catalogue of about 100 titles. These included contributions from authors across Brazil, from the north to the south of the country, working in multiple areas. History was the discipline with the greatest concentration of titles, but the list also extended into communication, law, anthropology, memory studies, and regional themes. Distribution, while described as modest, was effective: Milfontes reached the entire national territory of Brazil. Its principal channels for accessing the catalogue became Amazon Brasil and the publisher's own website, https://editoramilfontes.com.br/. The website functions as an online store, listing books with prices in Brazilian reais and highlighting new releases and promotional offers. It also sells stationery and gift items alongside books. By the early 2020s the publisher's catalogue included titles on a wide range of subjects, such as the suicide crisis among Guarani and Kaiowá peoples, legal rituals and moral contagion in Brazilian courtrooms, nomadic cartographies in aesthetics and anthropology, the professionalization of Brazilian historiography, the memory of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, the 40th anniversary of the Revista Brasileira de História, and studies on Max Weber, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, and other thinkers. The publisher remains active and privately held, with Bruno César Nascimento as its founder and owner.

• 2020

  Catalogue reaches about 100 titles within three years (2017–2020).

• 2017

  Editora Milfontes founded in March by Bruno César Nascimento.

• 2017

  Inaugural work published: 'Do passado histórico ao passado prático: 40 anos de Meta-história'.

Independent academic publisher specializing in history and the humanities, with national distribution in Brazil.

• Do passado histórico ao passado prático: 40 anos de Meta-história

• Corram livres as lágrimas que choro: o suicídio Guarani e Kaiowá

• Porque a história ainda é importante: ensaios sobre pesquisa e ensino

• Rituais jurídicos de interação: ilegalismos e contágio moral nas audiências

• Cartografias nômades: ensaios de estética e antropologia

• O despertar da presença: Gumbrecht para historiadores

• Epistemologia da comunicação no Brasil

• A invenção da historiografia brasileira profissional

• Martov: fora da lixeira da história

• Do fake ao fato: des(atualizando) Bolsonaro

• Experiências femininas no campo de concentração de Ravensbrück

• Arquitetura urbana do café em Muqui-ES

• Por uma história da Covid-19: iniciativas de memória da pandemia no Brasil

• Democracia: o combustível da primavera árabe

• A perenidade de uma questão: vínculos entre história, tempo e identidade

• Do sensível, poesia: outros modos de grafar o mundo

• 40 anos da Revista Brasileira de História

• Os tempos da santidade: processos de canonização e relatos hagiográficos

• Introdução à ciência histórica: capítulos de metodologia

• Max Weber: teoria e história

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