Francisco Ayres, lembranças de um porvir: Porto Nacional e a modernização no norte de Goyaz

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Nunes, Radamés Vieira
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Uberlândia; Brasil; Programa de Pós-graduação em História
• Palavras-chave em Português: História; Ayres, Francisco, 1903; Porto Nacional; Norte de Goyaz; Modernização; Francisco Ayres; Modernization; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/17850; https://doi.org/10.14393/ufu.te.2016.122

At the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century many Brazilian cities have experienced changes in several aspects, such as urbanization, accelerating the experience over time due to new possibilities of transport and communication, scientific discoveries, development of new techniques, such as steam, photography, telegraph , electricity, population growth, new habits, customs and norms of everyday practices, rationalization of politics, increasing impersonality in social relations, among other elements that altered the perception of the city. This study aims to reflect on ways of experiencing the modernization, this is the bottom question that permeates all the work, accompanied by the newspaper Norte de Goyaz and significant character Francisco Ayres da Silva. Attempts up from its trajectory and periodical produced by him realize what is the place of Porto Nacional against the modernization project and the results arising therefrom. In other words, the announcement of the new and the progress of the avalanche caused in the city located within the interior of the central part of Brazil. Francisco Ayres began to draw attention, not so much for its prominence as a public figure of / in Porto Nacional, but mainly for the way formed, moved, took part read, understood, interpreted and interfered in this process of modernization, which might not even have exploded in Porto city as desired, but there left many splinters, reaching its inhabitants. From this perspective, (re)tell the trajectory of Ayres, was the path taken to make more intelligible the way a city, which was constituted as northern goiano, supposedly alien to large centers region and modernization of urban space, went through this process in the electricity century, at which time it was believed, or wanted to believe it was not impossible for man. The days of Francisco Ayres did not have them in the palm of the hand, but the fragments of these days are printed in weekly papers, produced in Nortense typography in the early twentieth century, in them are given to read their ways of feeling, thinking and experiencing the context in who lived and his “utopian” projects for the city, which also remitted to that envisioned for the region, as expected splendid future.