Daniel Pedro Müller and the production of maps and statistics as instruments of government in São Paulo (1802-1842)

• Grant number: 12/06029-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: July 01, 2012
• End date: April 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Iris Kantor
• Grantee: José Rogério Beier
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

By rebuilding the trajectory of Daniel Pedro Müller (1785-1841), a Portuguese military engineer sent by the Crown to his colony in America in the context marked by the deepening of the general crisis of the Ancien Regime, we intend to research how the production of maps and statistics created by this agent served the São Paulo ruling elite as governmental tools in the subsequent period. In addition, we also intend to analyze how the successive political conjunctures - Brazilian Independence, abdication of its first emperor and the constitutional reform of 1834 - ended up determining the production of this professional and reveals what was the new concerning of the São Paulo government elite regarding to the knowledge and occupation of the geographical space they were in charge of.By following the trajectory of this military engineer, educated in the best schools of Lisbon and legitimate son of Pombal's policy, we intend to demonstrate how his performance, through the production of maps and statistics, ended up being much more important to the Brazilian and São Paulo politics by the second quarter of 19th century.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

BEIER, José Rogério. Power artifacts: Daniel Pedro Müller, legislative assembly and the territorial construction of the province of São Paulo (1835-1849).. 2015. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.