Onde os impérios se encontram: demarcando fronteiras coloniais nos confins da América (1777-1791)

• Autor(a) principal: Torres, Simei Maria de Souza
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12662
• topic: Fronteiras; Borders; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

The materialization of the land with defining monuments of the limits of a territory passed to be made from century XVIII. Until then, the limits of the territories were frequently inexact and the States had its jurisdictions until where the respective governments had capacity to exert its sovereignty. In such a way, Treated to Madrid (1750) and the Santo Ildefonso (1777) they had been important intentions carried through in this direction. Waked up for Spain and Portugal, the Crowns in America aimed at to establish the official limits of both, a time that, initiated the process of overseas expansion and the occupation of the American continent, to determine the ownership of territories became basic question. This work analyzes the process of landmarks of the borders between the Portuguese and Spanish possessions in America, more specifically in the Amazônia, deriving of Tratado Preliminar de Limites na América meridional entre S. M. F. a senhora D. Maria I, Rainha de Portugal, e S. M. C. o senhor D. Carlos III, Rei de Hespanha, signed in 1º of October of 1777. Amongst the three stages that constitute the establishment of a border politics - definition, delimitation and landmark - we privilege the study of third: the landmark. Basically physical phase and technique, in which the demarcating agents look for to interpret and to apply in the land the intentions of the negotiators/delimiters. In this direction, the stage of landmarks of the border leaves the sphere of the abstractions diplomatical politics, subtilities and graphical representations to confrot itself with the daily reality of the field works. In the Amazônia, this was the moment of the confrontation between the conceived one and the possible one, in which the theoretical premises of the agreement had not found resonance practical in loco