Agentes da ordem e da desordem: polícia, política e sociedade no Pará de 1879 a 1904

Abstract

During the early years of the republican regime the military went through a process of institutional restructuring and consolidation of a building movement for an alleged "military class". In this movement is possible to see the making of Pará law enforcers since the Empire as a tacitly defined project in line with the ideas of civility and modernity at the time. These work seeks to understand the police beyond the result of a high officialdom national effort to impose this agenda to a local force subordinate to the Army, but as a result of a historical process in which the Pará military themselves were actors and agents. It is precisely in order to understand the process of making of the republican police force that this research analyzes the security organization in Pará, as well the subjects who embodied this project, and how they are interacting with Pará society in the late XIX century to the XX. Understanding the early decades of the Republic and the uprisings, disciplinary problems and reforms of Pará military during this period as doings of resistance that demonstrate awareness of his own agency; I consider that yet included in a military build process and monopolization of force, the Pará police must be seen as active participant in the creation of an organized, well-structured and effective military force.