Abstract
The current research project, entitled The trajectory of Dom Tomás José de Melo: administration, governance and Enlightenment politics in Pernambuco in the second half of the eighteenth century, in developing at the graduate program in Social History of FFLCH-USP, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Heloisa Liberalli Bellotto, investigates the government Dom Tomas José de Melo, Governor Capta…