<strong>Construction and fragmentation of the Brazilian national state in the imperial period: the creation of the province of Paraná</strong> - DOI: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v30i1.2977

Abstract

This text examines the process by which the province of Paraná (Brazil) was created, in 1853. The major goal is to show the causal connection between the demand for autonomy expressed by the district of Coritiba and the process of construction of the Brazilian national state. It attempts to verify historically the underlying factors and conditions of the creation of the province. The central hypothesis is that these factors and conditions are embedded in the type of national state that was built in Brazil. The documents used as the base of the investigation are contained in the Anais do Parlamento Brasileiro (Annals of the Brazilian Parliament), for the years between 1823 and 1854, besides the systematic examination of primary data taken from archives and studies produced during the imperial period about the political and administrative organization of the national territory. The major finding is that the creation of the province of Paraná was a consequence of the spread of despotic power over the Brazilian territory.