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Current article is foregrounded on the relevant trajectory of the press as an object of historiographic reflection, with special reference to its geographical expansion in Brazil between the late 19th century and the early 20th century. It was precisely during this period that there was a displacement from the great urban centers and reached far and remote spaces. The paper deals with recent studies on the press in the Amazon underscoring the need for transpositioning of an annoying historiographic silence on the experiences within small villages and towns in the Amazon mobilized by an expanding rubber economy and based on a strong migratory movement to the region´s rubber trees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although World War II triggered a brief expectation for the establishment of world peace, the fear of new conflicts hovered on the international scene at the start of the so-called Cold War. Political, economical, diplomatic and ideological rives between the United States and the Soviet Union became commonplace. The capitalist and the socialist blocks were gradually established and the start of the conflict was a high theme in Brazilian journalism. O Estado de S. Paulo, Folha da Manhã, Correio da Manhã and Jornal do Brasil exploited the theme by reports, editorials, articles, columns and charges. The analysis of this journalistic material on the initial skirmishes of the Cold War is central to this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]