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Published on: July 3, 2016
[Science and history in the report by the First Republic's Comissão Exploradora do Planalto Central]
1Pesquisadora Adjunta do Mast/MCT Rua Mário Portela, 161/1002 bloco A 22241-000 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Abstract:
The idea of moving Brazil's capital to the Central Plateau reappeared in the early days of the Republic, having been defended one century earlier by the Viscount of Porto Seguro. Headed by Luiz Cruls, director of Brazil's National Observatory, a commission was formed in 1892 to stake out the area where the new capital would stand. The expedition's 1896 report found space in Brazil's main vehicles of public opinion; it was reviewed in newspapers and also in articles published in Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro, the Brazilian Institute for History and Geography's journal. A number of issues then of concern to certain sectors of Brazilian society converge in the body of the report, including the healthiness of Brazil's climate for European immigrants, the definition of the country's borders, and territorial integration.
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