Abstract
The article aims to raise some questions about how to think the history of the State from the propositions presented by Juan Ruiz Pro in Almanack Forum. Firstly, conceiving State as a social construct within the framework of a State culture; secondly, considering the problem of the control of their meanings while analytical category and in a cultural dimension. It takes as privileged moment for discussion the Independence Era in America, and the Brazil example of some analytics proposals.
Keywords:
State; Culture; Institutions; Modernity; Independence.