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| Author(s): |
Pedro Afonso Cristovão dos Santos
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2014-10-24 |
| Examining board members: |
Paulo Teixeira Iumatti;
Temistocles Americo Correa Cezar;
Miriam Dolhnikoff;
Raquel Glezer;
Lucia Maria Paschoal Guimaraes
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| Advisor: | Paulo Teixeira Iumatti |
| Abstract | |
This work studies the dispute between Brazil and France regarding the delimitation of the exact frontier of the Brazilian empire with the French Guiana during the reign of D. Pedro II. This contend, only solved in Brazil\'s Republican period, became in the beginning of the 1840\'s a question of historical and geographical erudition, since both parties agreed that the definition of the frontier depended upon the correct interpretation of the diplomatic treaty that had stipulated the limits, the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713. The end of a round of negotiations between both countries, in 1856, transferred the dispute to the public sphere, making it an object of publications in periodicals, historical works, and of debates in literary societies. In Brazil, at the end of the 1850\'s, beginning of the 1860\'s, two answers to the problem were proposed, one by Joaquim Caetano da Silva (1810-1873), the other by Alexandre José de Melo Morais (1816-1882): while the work of the former was regarded as a model of erudition, the latter was seen as a compiler, and his work as only a source for others. This question, as an erudite debate, shows a lot about the methodological procedures known by the Brazilian historiography of the 1800\'s, and the differences between the two authors mentioned illuminate the variety of possibilities of historical writing in that context (AU) | |