In the frame of scarcity: trade policy and green meat supply in Belém (1897-1909)

• Grant number: 12/50441-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants - Publications - Books published in Brazil
• Start date: September 01, 2012
• End date: August 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History
• Principal Investigator: Estefania Knotz Cangucu Fraga
• Grantee: Estefania Knotz Cangucu Fraga
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the relations between public administrators and marching in formation of monopolies and control the market supply of fresh meat, in Bethlehem, from the speeches of this kind of shortage in the years 1897-1909. It also analyzes the publications of the press at the time on the issue of green meat and interventionist strategies of the government in supplying food. Assuming that the lack of meat was a political creation, and fruit of the action of the marchers, selected years, such events would overcome thus guided explanations of weather problems, diseases, in theft and transportation, among others, as was recurrent the discourse of the authorities, journalists of the time and in the chronicles of foreign travelers, and respected by the authors of scarce works on this theme, in the Amazon region. (AU)