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Tropas pagas e ordenanças: perfil social dos militares da capitania do Rio Grande (séculos XVII-XIX)
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ARAÚJO, Maiara Silva. Tropas pagas e ordenanças: perfil social dos militares da capitania do Rio Grande (séculos XVII-XIX). 2019. 235f. Dissertação (Mestrado em História) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2019.
Autor
Araújo, Maiara Silva
Resumen
This examines the admission of “mestiços” (mixed race) individuals into the Captaincy of Rio
Grande’s military administration, with an emphasis on the ones who resides in Ribeira do
Seridó, in the backlands of Captaincy of Rio Grande’s riverside, between the 17th, the 18th, and
the first years of the 19th centuries. To do that, it also discusses the quantitative profile of the
settlers who took on roles in the Rio Grande military administration, in order to therefore make
sense of the role reserved for “mestiços” in the aforementioned space in comparison to others
qualified as white, black, or indigenous individuals. In consonance with this, it also investigates
the institutionalization process of the military administration in the Captaincy of Rio Grande
and underlines the difficulties involved with the military service in this colonial territory. This
analysis also includes the role of the military institution in the process of territorialization of
Ribeira do Seridó, which had a military structure as its first territorial and institutional
landmark, in between the Lusitanian efforts to expand towards the American countryside: the
Casa Forte do Cuó (“Cuó Stronghold”), built between 1686 and 1687, furthermore highlighting
the existing relationship between this administrative institution and the construction of colonial
territory in the analyzed context. Methodologically, this has taken into consideration the play
of scales, as discussed by French historian Jacques Revel, in which macro (the Captaincy of
Rio Grande) and micro (Ribeira do Seridó) spaces meet to make it possible to approach the
military administration’s role in territorializing Ribeira do Seridó, as well as the social
composition of the military corps then existent in the Captaincy of Rio Grande. In terms of
documentation, this is supported by military (assignments of army personnel), parochial
(baptism, marriage and death registries), and judicial (post-mortem inventories) sources,
determined by the aforementioned temporal-spatial outline and submitted to data crossexamination, as well as to quantitative, serial and qualitative analyses. This work makes it
possible to fill in some of the historiographic gaps in terms of research concerning the military
administration in Ribeira do Seridó and in the Captaincy of Rio Grande itself, focusing on the
role of “mestiços” within that field of colonial administration.