Fernando Novais retired from the USP in 1986 and began teaching at the Instituto de Economia da Universidade de Campinas (UNICAMP) [Institute of Economics of the University of Campinas), where he remained until 2003. However, he is still today a professor in the Postgraduate Programme in Economic History at the USP's History Department. Throughout his prolific career, he also taught at the University of Texas, the University of Paris, the University of Louvain, the University of Coimbra and the University of Lisbon. In December 2006 he was awarded the title of Professor Emeritus of the Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade [Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences] of the University of São Paulo. In the 21st century, he chose to revisit the New History and the developments of the theme of the long term and the new challenges posed by cultural history, given the debates arising from historiographical clashes over the meanings of structuralism and the construction of narrative. On the path opened by what seems to be an interest in revisiting his career as a historian, he organised two books in partnership with one of the many doctors he trained, Rogério Forastieri da Silva, entitled Nova História em Perspectiva [New History in Perspective]. He continues to read and promote controversies, as is expected of great historians.

Active bibliography: (Editor) História da vida privada no Brasil 2 – Império: a Corte e a modernidade nacional, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 1997; (Editor) História da vida privada no Brasil 3 – República: da Belle Époque à Era do rádio, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 1998; “Braudel e a missão francesa”, in: Estudos avançados (depoimentos), volume 08, número 22, São Paulo, 1994; “Condições de privacidade na colônia”, in Fernando A. Novais (Editor) História da vida privada no Brasil 1 – Cotidiano e vida privada na América portuguesa, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 1997, pp. 13-40; “Estrutura e dinâmica do Antigo Sistema Colonial (séculos XVI-XVIII)”, Cadernos CEBRAP, número 17, São Paulo, 1974; Aproximações – Estudos de história e historiografia, São Paulo, Cosac Naify, 2005; Portugal e Brasil na crise do Antigo Sistema Colonial (1777-1808), São Paulo, Hucitec, 1986; NOVAIS & MELLO, “Capitalismo tardio e sociabilidade moderna”, in Fernando A. Novais (Editor) História da vida privada no Brasil 4 – Contrastes da intimidade contemporânea, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 1998, pp. 559-658; NOVAIS & MOTA, A independência política do Brasil, São Paulo, Hucitec, 1996 ; NOVAIS & SILVA (orgs.), Nova História em perspectiva (dois volumes), São Paulo, Cosac Naify, 2011.

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