Atividades da Brazil Railway Company no sul do Brasil: a instalação da Lumber e a guerra na região do Contestado : 1906 – 1916

• Ano de defesa: 2009
• Autor(a) principal: Valentini, Delmir José
• Orientador(a): Constantino, Núncia Maria Santoro
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: BRASIL - HISTÓRIA; SANTA CATARINA - HISTÓRIA - CAMPANHA DO CONTESTADO, 1912-1916; ESTRADAS DE FERRO; COLONIZAÇÃO - SANTA CATARINA
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/3882

This thesis analyzes the performance of Brazil Railway Company, holding company created by Percival Farquhar in 1906 in the United States and it acted in the Region of Contestado at railway, timbering and colonizing branches. Through the subsidiary Southern Brazil Lumber & Colonization Company, Brazil Railway installed a large timber complex extractive exporter and promoted the colonization of land granted or acquired setting immigrants and settlers in deforested areas. During the period from 1906 to 1916 the Region of Contestado went through a process of profound transformations that provoked economic, social, cultural, political and environmental changes. These changes were crucial factors in the outbreak of armed struggle unleashed in 1912 which was extended until 1916 and it was named the Contestado War. The outbreak of the Contestado war is addressed in the context of changes occurred with the opening of the railroad Sao Paulo-Rio Grande, which cut vertically the Region of Contestado in 1910 and it was the beginning of timbering and colonizing activities of Southern Brazil Lumber & Colonization Company in 1911 and the consequent occupation of land for projects of colonization. Former residents of the Contestado Region, many of them, settlers who occupied the vacant lands that were granted to Brazil Railway Company, revolted and destroyed railway stations, burned the timber Lumber of Calmon and attacked the settlers installed by the Company in Rio das Antas. The war of Contestado left a balance of aproximately eight thousand deaths, the vast majority, poor country people who lived in the Contestado Region. The study was compiled from a documentary research based on public and private archives, bibliographies on the subject, and also through oral history from interviews with former employees of the Southern Brazil Lumber & Colonization Company and their descendants.