Seguindo ordens, cruzando campos: o governador e capitão-general Dom Diogo de Souza e a política do Império Português para o Rio da Prata (1808-1811)

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Alex Jacques da
• Orientador(a): Abrão, Janete Silveira
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: PORTUGAL - HISTÓRIA; RIO DA PRATA - HISTÓRIA; POLÍTICA
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/3918

This study examines the policy of the Portuguese Empire in relation to neighboring platinum, taking as one of his references the administration of Governor and Captain-General Don Diogo de Souza, the Captaincy-General of the Rio Grande de São Pedro, between 1809 and 1811. During this period, worth mentioning, that were in full boiling the processes of political sovereignty dispute of the Hispano-American colonies, which represented a major threat to the integrity of the Portuguese Empire in the far south of America. Don Diogo, to take over the administration of Rio Grande de São Pedro do Sul, in 1809, had assigned itself an important mission: to ensure the integrity of the territories from Portugal front to the threat posed by the beginning of independence processes in the Hispano-American colonies, especially in the Rio da Prata, which sought to enforce a number of projects to relocate their sovereignty, as Spain had its royal family imprisoned by Napoleon. In this sense, the delimitation of time, it is worth noting, was chosen from the time he met the Collection of the Historical Archive of the Foreign Ministry and the National Archive in Rio de Janeiro, extensive manuscript and printed material that connects Don Diogo de Souza to a variety of characters related to the administration of the Portuguese Empire, headquartered since 1808 in Rio de Janeiro. As already said, in this period the Portuguese attempt to secure possession of the southern region of Rio Grande as part of the Portuguese intensified, also in view of the tensions caused by the independence movements of the Spanish colonies. To this end, various manuscript sources, letters, decrees and reports sent and received by Don Diogo were analyzed, and made possible the accurate interpretation of many webs of political, social, cultural and economic relationships maintained by the governor and captain-general. Thus, it was possible to verify, for example, how winding was bragantina policy in relation to neighboring, very susceptible to what happened in politics and economy outside Portugal. Moreover, it is worth mentioning the treatment of discussions about the intervention occurred in the Banda Oriental do rio Uruguai, which had been treated in the historiography, including contemporary as an invasion to purely expansionary. This, however, was much more complex, involving discussions between the managers of Portuguese politics that at times, showed how tenuous the lines that dictated the agenda for the governance of the Rio Grande and the Portuguese Empire were.