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| Author(s): |
Leandro Santos de Lima
Total Authors: 1
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| 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: | 2011-06-22 |
| Examining board members: |
Laura de Mello e Souza;
Rodrigo Monteferrante Ricupero;
Adriana Romeiro
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| Advisor: | Laura de Mello e Souza |
| Abstract | |
Until a few decades ago the idea that prevailed was that the bandeirismo paulista was the natural outcome of a race of giants that was forced, due to the supposed abandonment of the metropolis, to penetrate the wilderness to seek remedy for their poverty. This definition would put such a historical phenomenon in a purely local level influences, considering atypical and isolated from any relationship with the Portuguese colonial enterprise. However, the current historiography, to revisit the issue, has been proposing new analytical paths other than those previously prevailing. Following current trends, this research aimed to analyze the bandeirismo taubateano punctually, between the years 1645 and 1720, as a historical phenomenon, the result of an economic process, social and political character of both local as well as colonial. It was found that the second half of the seventeenth century witnessed a shift in raids frontiersmen, both of Indian hunting and mineral exploration. Such activities, if one part were financed by private capital, which could, or may not be the group\'s own social bandeirante, on the other side received the official encouragement coming from the metropolis through the correspondence between the official agents of the Portuguese administration. The bandeirante, seeking the domination of local government, wanted not only to be rich but also ennobling, even the crown wanted to inject new wealth and for this, the settler needed to further exploitation of their lands in America hence encouraging such incursions with the promise of honors, titles and favors. In the game of interests, the relationship was symbiotic, it was \"a company together.\" Finally, both the local bandeirante group as the Lusitanian monarchy wanted the same thing: keeping the power. (AU) | |