Interprovincial Roads in Central Brazil: Mato Grosso, Goias, Minas Gerais (1834-1870)

Author(s)

Viviane Alves de Morais

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2010-08-05

Examining board members

Miriam Dolhnikoff; Vera Lucia Amaral Ferlini; Maria Luiza Ferreira de Oliveira

• Advisor: Miriam Dolhnikoff

Abstract

This research analises the imperial and provincials sistem of administration in Brasil since Regency until the starts of railroads expansion process.(1838-1870) through the reports that was made by ministers and provincial presidents from Mato Grosso, Goiás e Minas Gerais. We desire to show that interprovincial roads were one of the most important ways tosettle brazilian comunications during most parto the nineteen, while thei also were object of conflicts between the trhee provinces and the imperial Power. At the same time, this Road were subject to the building of some concepts as representation and national interess inside the Parlament. In the Executive Power, to research of the budget permitted to determine the importance of this roads on the Imperial expenses and their importance related to the State projects maden by the man who integrated high mational politics, in a way wich show how the building of Imperial State was performed. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 07/06926-1 - Routs of the Brazilian Empire: interprovincial roadrails ANS the ways of the national modernization (1838-1870)
• Grantee: Viviane Alves de Morais
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master