The 20th century was marked by the rise of scientism in the political, economic and social spheres. Brazil had just become a Republic, and groups were disputing the important mission of building a new national identity. Armed with the new world productions, writers like Monteiro Lobato established contact with relevant scientists. This article seeks to discuss issues related to the figure of Jeca Tatu as a fund...
A água é, em seus diferentes contextos, a questão central deste artigo. Ele resulta de pesquisa baseada em análise de conteúdo. O objetivo é verificar o núcleo dos sentidos contidos nas representações de dois escritores e dois jornais, com textos publicados em diferentes épocas da história do município de Joinville, no estado de Santa Catarina. Foram analisadas duas obras do memorialista Schneider (1994; 1995) ...
Rachel de Queiroz and Lygia Fagundes Telles appeared in the Brazilian literature not just because their literary talent, but mainly for being women in a scene predominantly male and for giving voice to female and strong characters in a conservative education context. In their books, both the authors in a certain way have reported the problems of a generation of women who were limited by social values rooted in ...
The paper examines the circulation of knowledge in the universal exhibitions that occurred in the second half of the 19th century. This text intends to contribute to this discussion analyzing the patterns of presentation of the products in the Brazilian and Argentine pavilions. It is based on the documents produced by the Brazilian and Argentinean committees to demonstrate the importance of natural and agricult...
This text proposes to discuss the Whaling Frame Garopaba, part of the complex built frames and explored in Brazil between the XVII and XIX. Focuses on aspects related to the foundation and the frame structure, that is, an organized system of whale hunting, production and distribution of oil that played an active role in the formation of the municipality of Garopaba. The following analysis considers not only the...
This study aims to examine the changes in the Brazilian sugar cane agribusiness from the second half of the nineteenth century. We focus on research on the defense of the separation between farming and industry as a way of implementating technical mechanisms that would enable a lower cost production and improve the quality and quantity of sugar cane. The central sugar mill, as the new production facility, was c...