Banca de DEFESA: Fernando Vale de Almeida

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STUDENT : Fernando Vale de Almeida
DATE: 11/08/2023
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: Módulo 24 PPGHIS
TITLE:

The Amazon in the Brazilian Empire: between science and capital, foreign relations

KEY WORDS:

Amazon history; Amazon in the Brazilian Empire, Free navigation in the Amazon basin; Brazil imperial diplomacy; Baron of Rio Branco; Brazil borders; Imperialism

PAGES: 195
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

The Brazilian Amazon is a multifaceted construct shaped over centuries. Although its western origin begins in the genesis of Portuguese colonization in the New World, the securing of its current geographical contours is the product of actions, not meticulously calculated, in a chain, which involved, in addition to the Portuguese-Brazilian political, diplomatic and administrative apparatus, the work of countless pathfinders who were willing to quell human curiosity about the Amazon Forest. During the Empire, especially in the 1850s, a diplomatic undertaking began in search of confirmation of the Amazonian borders. The area, which was acquired at great cost over the centuries, would only find its final shape in the Republic, in the chancellery of Rio Branco (1902-1912). The controversies, however, would not be found in the large territorial portions acquired by the efficient Luso-Brazilian spread beyond Tordesillas, but in the filigree of the divergences about the borders between Brazil and the Amazonian countries, which, in historical bases, were built. Concomitantly, the Amazon would find itself, also in the middle of the 19th century, with a new endowment of importance both for Brazil and for the world. In the background of the imperialism and its new shape, neo-imperialism, the Brazilian Amazon was at the center of multiple aspirations, which went far beyond its historical geopolitical exegesis. The advance of global capital and science over the region took place full steam ahead from 1850, forcing, in a progressively upward process, by various means, the opening of the basin to free navigation, in 1866. This dissertation, therefore, intends to analyze the Amazon in the Brazilian Empire, seeking, through the study of the international relations of the period, understand the role of science, capital and diplomacy in the engendering of this sociopolitical, economic and cultural construct, which corresponds to almost 60% Brazil’s territory.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - ANTONIO JOSE BARBOSA - OUTROS
Interno - 1714125 - CARLOS EDUARDO VIDIGAL
Presidente - 2277361 - FRANCISCO FERNANDO MONTEOLIVA DORATIOTO
Interno - 1284145 - LUIZ PAULO FERREIRA NOGUEROL