A Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro, das invasões corsárias ao governo de Luis Vahia Monteiro (1710 a 1732): uma história de conflitos pelo uso do território colonial.

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Meira, Mário
• Orientador(a): Tavares, Célia Cristina da Silva
• Banca de defesa: Dore, Andrea Carla , Martins, Maria Fernanda Vieira
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em História Social
• Departamento: Centro de Educação e Humanidades::Faculdade de Formação de Professores
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Conflitos; Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro; Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro História 1710-1732; Território Rio de Janeiro(Cidade) História
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Conflicts; Municipal Council of Rio de Janeiro
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA::HISTORIA DO BRASIL::HISTORIA DO BRASIL COLONIA
• Link de acesso: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/13559

he municipal councils constituted into one of the most important mechanisms for maintaining the Portuguese overseas empire. It stemmed from the ancient medieval councils, accumulated the colonial elites interests which were written by good men of the colony, and held considerable power over local society, as well as the freedom to represent the concerns and difficulties of the Portuguese king. Parallel to the senate power of the city council, the authorities were appointed by the king of Portugal: colonial governors. This share of power generated in colony many conflicts between the colonial governors and senate members. In Rio Janeiro, during the eighteenth century, several internal and external factors to the colony deteriorated relations between the colonial governors and members of the senate. This situation is aggravated by the incursions of French corsairs in 1710 and 1711 and it demonstrated the fragility of the Portuguese empires that had long ceased its significant naval power, losing the power over France, England and Holland. Unable to control the enemies in the vast ocean and devoid of naval able to patrol the coasts colonies in Africa, Asia and America, especially the Brazil, the Portuguese empire depended increasingly on the resources of colonies to maintain the overseas territory. The Portuguese court has suffered a hard impact with the conquest of Rio de Janeiro by the Duguay-Trouin, and over the next few years it tried to strengthen the defensive system of the colony by sending troops and ships as well as building new fortifications and refitting of the existing defensive system. All this effort for the war was financed, in most part, with resources from the own Rio de Janeiro. Obviously, this burden did not appeal the emerging mercantile elite that flourished in the colony resulting in the fact that the policy of locking up the Rio de Janeiro between walls and fortifications with the money of the colonial economy placed on opposing sides of the king and the staff members of the senate several times in the first decades of the eighteenth century. Arose conflicts for the use and ownership of urban territory of Rio de Janeiro increasingly dotted with forts, trenches and furrowed by long trenches to prevent the urban growth. As well as the territorial conflict, due to the expansion of commercial activity developed by settlers, trade disputes involving local elites, eager for profit and boosted trade to the discovery of gold in mines region, and Portuguese officials and traders, each wanting control the business activity grew at accelerated pace, others wanting to profit and dispute spaces with the local colonial elites. In the midst of these struggles was the municipal council of Rio de Janeiro, the main objective of this research, to defend the interests of the elites of the colony, as was their representative. It was a dispute in which, many times, members paid with the loss of liberty and their property against colonial governors more intolerant