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| Author(s): |
Valdir Donizete dos Santos Junior
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: | 2019-02-01 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria Ligia Coelho Prado;
Pedro Meira Monteiro;
Gabriel Passetti;
Stella Maris Scatena Franco Vilardaga
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| Advisor: | Maria Ligia Coelho Prado |
| Abstract | |
This research aims to discuss the interpretations formulated by the French engineer and economist Michel Chevalier (1806-1869) about the Americas between the 1830s and 1860s. Follower of Saint Simon\'s ideas during his youth, he traveled to the United States, Mexico and Cuba between 1833 and 1835. Back to France, he became professor at the Collège de France (1840) and one of the main intellectual and political figures supporting Napoleon III\'s Second Empire (1851-1870). This work is developed based on two main axes: first of all, the analysis of the elaboration of an \"industrial utopia\" during his travel to the United States; secondly, the discussion about the elaboration of a dichotomy between the regions of English and Spanish colonization in the New World. Michel Chevalier used this comparison to defend the construction of an interoceanic canal in Central America and the armed intervention of France in Mexico in the 1860s. In his writings, Michel Chevalier affirmed cultural and political differences between the Anglo-Saxon Protestants and the Latin American Catholics in Europe and the Americas. He provided elements for the formulation, in the 1850s, of the concept of Latin America. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/18811-8 - France between two Americas: French travelers in the United States and Latin America (1836-1867) |
| Grantee: | Valdir Donizete dos Santos Junior |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |