The civilization of the delegate: modernity, police and society in São Paulo in the first decades of the Republic, 1889-1930

• Grant number: 13/50232-5
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants - Publications - Books published in Brazil
• Start date: July 01, 2013
• End date: June 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Modern and Contemporary History
• Principal Investigator: Carlos de Almeida Prado Bacellar
• Grantee: Carlos de Almeida Prado Bacellar
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

During the early decades of the Republic São Paulo police has, was extended become more professional and its authority have spread throughout the public space as one of the pillars of the new order. This study intends to comprehend the modernization of the police, as part of significant transformations, which reached all society in a time, when São Paulo was raising on the international stage as a major export hub of coffee on the planet. In the meantime, the police of the major urban centers of the world have also, been modernized in order to protect and propagate a dominant conception of social order, which backed the socioeconomic changes that occurred throughout the nineteenth century. Embracing a transnational perspective, this study aims to shed light on connections and interactions that contribute to understanding the complex process of sedimentation of a police culture in São Paulo and its overlapping with the emergence of new social actors. (AU)