“Surveyed city”, “civilized city”: Impressions about the hard living between progress and poverty at Imperial Recife (1830 – 1850)

• Autor(a) principal: Morais, Grasiela Florêncio
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Clio (Recife. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/index.php/revistaclio/article/view/24992
• topic: Recife; Progress; Poverty; Recife; Progresso; Pobreza

This work takes place in Recife, during its 19th century’s first half (1830-1850), as a city which was intended to be modern and civilized. In order to become that, local authorities of Recife had proposed and imposed projects in the sense of improve both structural and moral aspects. Beside the progress which wanted to be done on Recife, there was poverty that was made ostensive and got irradiated through the town’s stronghold. The ones who lived in poverty, in turn, beyond suffering with the restrictions of their condition were submitted to authorities’ daily surveillance; therefore dialogue between these parts was tense. For discuss about this subject, we gave our attention to manuscripts of Recife Municipal Council and City Hall, the periodics Diário Novo and Diário de Pernambuco and Reports of the Provincial Presidents.