2023-08-242023-08-242023-07-27SANTOS, Roberg Januário dos. Do Grão-Pará à Amazônia: a invenção da região amazônica frente à centralização do império brasileiro. Orientador: Nelson Rodrigues Sanjad. 2023. 395 f. Tese (Doutorado em História) - Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, 2023. Disponível em: https://repositorio.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/2011/15886. Acesso em:.https://repositorio.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/2011/15886This doctoral dissertation addresses the rise of the Amazon region in the second half of the 19th century. Despite focusing on the political sphere, the exchange of ideas, images, and practices regarding local economy at the time are also discussed. Considering the theoretical contributions of conceptual history, this work reflects upon the denaturalization of names and the meanings they assume over time. A corpus composed of a range of historical sources, among which the Annals of the Brazilian Parliament stand out, is used as support. This study contributes to the knowledge of Brazilian history based on the understanding of the regional differentiation and the power relations between the Empire/Central Government and the regional political elites, especially the Amazonian ones. From the Second Reign, the political and economic weight of the court elites, as well as those of the North of Bahia and Pernambuco (agricultural), increased considerably in the Brazilian scenario, which resulted in a greater regional differentiation in the country during that period. On the other hand, in the provinces along the waterways of the Amazon River, while the local elites sought to politically reorganize the area after the Cabanagem Revolt, the rubber industry grew. The political and economic landscape created an environment that fostered political regionalism and was used by the Amazonian elites in favor of their own interests, which could channel considerably the perception of backwardness in the region to the lack of attention of the Central Government. Moreover, it allowed them to increase their political clout, seen by the northern provinces, including the Amazon ones, as centered on the interests of the southern ones. It is argued that this movement, seen from the 1870s, brought about regional reorganization and encouraged the development of a new political identity, resulting in the renaming of the former province of Grão-Pará, known from then on as Amazon. Therefore, it was concluded that the political regionalism of the riverside provinces, considering the administrative centralization of the Brazilian Empire along with the ideas of the time, contributed decisively to the rise of the Amazon as a differentiated region in terms of territory, politics, and culture.Acesso Abertohttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/br/AmazôniaRegiãoNaçãoImpério brasileiroAmazonRegionNationBrazilian EmpireDo Grão-Pará à Amazônia: a invenção da região amazônica frente à centralização do Império brasileiroTeseCNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIAARTE, CULTURA, RELIGIÃO E LINGUAGENSHISTÓRIA SOCIAL DA AMAZÔNIA