2023-05-222023-05-222023-05-222022-07-08https://repositorio.ifal.edu.br/handle/123456789/194This article discusses works of the historiography on the state of Alagoas: História de Alagoas, by Craveiro Costa, and, especially, História de Alagoas e o Baixo São Francisco: o rio e o vale, by Moreno Brandão. The text analyzes Brandão’s work in greater details, seeking to think about the following question: how do these books approach the west region within the historical construction of Alagoas? As a theoretical foundation, the thesis of Professor Luiz Sávio de Almeida on the “sugar pact” were used, understanding it as a network of radical interconnection between power, property and type of production, linked especially to the east, forest and coast of Alagoas, which took control of the provincial command. It is concluded that in traditional historiography an appreciation of the east prevails, to the detriment of the systematic study of the historiography of the west. The power guided the directions of these historical studies. This predominance of na interpretation of Alagoas, leaning towards the east, produced a void, an absence, which could be said to be a “black hole” in the readings about Alagoas.Therefore, Moreno Brandão and Craveiro Costa are two fundamental and inaugural authors of what will be called the consolidation of the historiography of Alagoas.They’re both from the first decades of the 20th century and the great innovation they brought was the break with almaarchism and with the tendency of monographs.Acesso AbertoHistoriografiaAlagoasOeste alagoanoMoreno BrandãoCraveiro Costahistoriographywest of alagoasTrabalho de Conclusão de CursoCIENCIAS HUMANAS