Pardos militiamen on the eve of liberalism. Color, work and politics (São Paulo, 1797-1831)

• Grant number: 13/22236-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: March 01, 2014
• End date: January 05, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Pedro Luis Puntoni
• Grantee: Fernando Prestes de Souza
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 14/24482-7 - Pardos militiamen on the eve of liberalism: color, work and politics (São Paulo, 1797-1831), BE.EP.DR

Abstract

This project relate to a research under development regarding the social history of the pardos militiamen from São Paulo. Which belonged to the Regimento de Infantaria Miliciana dos Úteis, existing between the years 1797-1831, and lived in the São Paulo city and in the surrounding villages. The main problematic is to understand how these mens, from the perspective of military corporation, had experienced the transformations resulting of the transition from Old Regime to politics Liberalism. Analytically, will be investigated three main interdependent axes: the examination of the military functions and the intern organization of the corporation; the investigation of the network of personal relationships and of the socio-economic variables concerning the pardos militiamen; and the analysis of their political action in the age of revolutions. Those mens are understood as social actors, individual and corporate. These men had integrated networks of interdependent relationships composed for the pardos militiamen and their families which had been linked to the social configurations more broadly constituted by captaincy/province of São Paulo, Portuguese empire and, after, Brazilian. The theoretical tools employed come from Norbert Elias and the primary sources handwritten from the Archive State of São Paulo.

Academic Publications

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

SOUZA, Fernando Prestes de. Free pardos in a field of tensions: militia, labor and power (São Paulo, 1797-1831). 2017. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.