Title: Entre a memória coletiva e a história de "cola e tesoura": as intrigas e os malogros nos relatos sobre a fábrica de ferro de São João de Ipanema
Abstract: This dissertation examines the construction of history and memory of the Fabrica de Ferro de São João de Ipanema, in Sorocaba, from the RG Collingwood's approach, who created the wellknown concept of "scissors-and-paste" history, in order to criticize historical writings or historiographical practices in which their authors work uncritically with produced reports, getting them from available sources to the researcher and selected from formal logic operations: similar information remain in the text and conflicting information are selected, discarding the supposedly wrong or inaccurate ones.A distintion among memory, collective memory, history and forgetting was made, present mainly in the work of Maurice Halbwachs Paul Ricoeur, and the concepts of progress and history magistra vitae, which appear mainly in the reports produced in the 20 th Century.This plant, which was one of the first industrial activities in Brazil, whose origin was in the 16 th Century, was object of interest of several people, like Peter Taques, Martim Francisco, Jose Bonifacio, Vergueiro, Varnhagen and Calógeras, among others who wrote about Ipanema for various reasons, in particular, to stress the pioneering of Ipanema in the face of other plants in Minas Gerais, noting, moreover, the conspiracy between the first Ipanema's Director, the