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Aviamento e redistribuição na Amazônia: uma análise evolucionária do período colonial
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2023-11-29) SILVA, Luiz Gonzaga Feijão da; SILVA, Harley; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1485109352201821; FERNANDES, Danilo Araújo; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2839366380149639
The economy and the market are not synonymous. This distinction is essential to understand aviation, our object of study. The thesis presents an alternative way of viewing the economic system of the colonial Amazon: instead of emphasizing the market system or its elements, we adopt redistribution as an institution that dominantly promotes the circulation of society's means of subsistence. This redistributive economy emanates from the State's ability to receive (taxes) and distribute (payer), in a monetary system without coined currency, which uses genres (means of subsistence) as money. This way of interpreting the economy was only possible through the use of Polanyi and Veblen's institutionalist theory, which helped us to define the objective of the thesis in understanding how the economic and social structures of the colonial Amazon, that is, forms of economic integration (FIE), support institutions and organizational structure of society, were decisive in the emergence, growth and persistence of aviation as a financial institution. In this sense, relief is an adapted and coherent manifestation of the financial demands of the redistributive economy, that is, where credit (and the flows of financial resources) are carried out in kind and debt comes from non-economic obligations – which During this period, it uncouples it from market-oriented motivations. Throughout the colonial period, aviation presented several institutional variations, which are in line with the change in the social and economic structure (we highlight the Missions Regiment and the Pombaline reforms), as we defend in our working hypothesis. Among the main variations that we present as a result of the causal and cumulative, therefore, evolutionary process, we highlight commercial aviation, state redistributive aviation and commercial redistributive aviation. To explain these variations in more detailed Darwinian terms, we chose to outline the evolutionary process for the movement of some important resources, such as captives (rescue troops) and drugs from the backlands, facilitating the work of protected Indians (state redistribution) and families caboclas in constitution (mercantile redistribution). Thus, the layout is dynamic and diverse, resulting from its interdependence with the structure in constant transformation.
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Domar as águas e os sertões da fronteira intra-americana: a centralidade dos caminhos fluviais nas disputas luso-espanholas do Tratado de Santo Ildefonso
(Associação Nacional de História, 2019-12) BRITO, Adilson Junior Ishihara
This article discusses the process of demarcation of boundaries between Portuguese and Spanish possessions, at the juncture of the Treaty of Santo Ildefonso (1777). During the process, which took place between 1780 and 1791, the rivers became important points of intra-American disputes between the Iberian demarcation commissions, since they could be taken as the natural dividing lines of the physical space subordinated to one or another monarchy, as well as ways in which the unknown localities, along with their natural resources and native populations, could be mapped. We will focus on several military incursions into the tributaries of the Negro and Japurá rivers, central to the parallel disputes between Portuguese and Spanish during the demarcations, which demonstrate the great concern with the intra-American borders of Portuguese dominions, to tame the backlands and turn them into jurisdictions.
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O mundo do trabalho colonial e a construção da fortaleza de São José de Macapá (1760-1775)
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2023-06-30) RAIOL JUNIOR, Leonardo; ARENZ, Karl Heinz; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0770998951374481
In this study, we aim to analyze the world of labor in the colonial Amazon, focusing on the labor force employed in the construction of the fortification of Macapá, between 1760 and 1775. This place, strategically located between the Cabo do Norte region and the delta of the Amazon River, needed to be garrisoned from the second half of the 18th century onwards. During this period, the reforms enacted by the Portuguese Crown, at the instance of the royal secretary Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, were implemented in the Amazon valley. Among the various subjects involved in the works in Macapá, we focus on indigenous and African laborers, essential for the execution of the works. With a focus on everyday life and the working conditions of these men and women employed at the construction sites, our analysis starts with the History seen from below associated with Agnes Heller’s ideas of everyday life and Hannah Arendt’s conception of active life. As for the sources, we resorted to documents available at the Public Archive of the State of Pará and the Overseas Historical Archive (Resgate Project). Both collections fostered the understanding of the context of the object of study, through the survey and crossing of data, contained in the lines and between the lines of the papers. In the end, we find that the construction of the Fort of Macapá encompassed a wide network of villages, cities and hamlets, from where a large part of the workforce used in the construction sites came from. There, a complex network of social relationships was engendered through the multiple forms of coexistence and interaction of these subjects.