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| Author(s): |
Daniel Afonso da Silva
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: | 2012-04-20 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria Inez Machado Borges Pinto;
João Luís Ribeiro Fragoso;
Antonio Carlos Robert Moraes;
Rubens Ricupero;
Elias Thome Saliba
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| Advisor: | Maria Inez Machado Borges Pinto |
| Abstract | |
The enigma of capital does a study on the Portuguese viceroyalty capital change from Bahia to Rio de Janeiro in 1763. It contests the thesis of the inevitability of that change. It relativizes the importance of Rio de Janeiro. It stresses the importance of Bahia. It reaffirms the centrality of Lisbon in the decision-making. It presents political and economic European and American scenarios under King Joseph`s reign and the management of Under-Secretary Sebastian within a period that covers the treaty of Madrid in 1750 to the end of seven years war in 1763. It emphasizes the concert alliances Luso-English and French-Spanish. It emphasizes the influence of British diplomats in Portugal. It reassesses the presence of envoys from France and Spain in Lisbon. It recovers the importance characters of this diplomacy. It displays some sharp and witty English personages as ambassadors Abraham Castres and Edward Hay, the foreign ministers William Pitt and Earl of Egremont, Officer James O\'Hara, the famous Lord Tyrawley. It exposes decisive French personalities as the Count de Merle, Madame Pompadour, Ambassador Jacques O\'Dunne, the Chancellor Pierre Francois-Joachim Bernis and Étienne-François Choiseul. It tells the confrontational and cooperative relationship between them and the king Josephs Under-Secretaries. It indicates the fine tuning of the Under-Secretary Sebastian to the ambassador Edward Hay. It remembers that they worked hand by hand during the decisive moments of the war. It recognizes the seriousness of war and its difficult to manage the Portuguese side. It relates how the omnipresence of European problems made it impossible for more active participation of King Joseph`s people due complications in America. It reevaluates the importance of Governor Gomes Freire de Andrade, Count of Bobadela. It says about his status as unrestricted and trustful inside the court of Lisbon in the Americas. It speaks of his presence in the Sacramento litigation and his performance as governor of Rio de Janeiro and the transcontinental desolation that his death caused in early 1763. It proposes that the change of the seat to viceroyalty in Rio de Janeiro was very much related to his death. It considers the force that Rio de Janeiro got with the exploration of gold, but it demonstrates the steady influence of Bahia in the centuries. It highlights differences in these two provinces. It argues that the decision to move the capital to Rio de Janeiro had little or nothing to do with possible \"capitality\" or insurmountable importance acquired by Rio de Janeiro. It supports, with Portuguese, Luso-Brazilian, English, French, Spanish administrative and diplomatic documentation, that there was complete indifference with regard to the change of place of the viceroyalty in Brazil. It believes that the valuation of the subject and Rio de Janeiro itself as the capital was inevitable historical and ideological construction of the following centuries. (AU) | |