Reconfiguração regional e disputa oligárquica no Sudeste brasileiro no final do Império: imigração, ensino agrícola e o projeto de criação da Província do Rio Sapucaí

Abstract

This article presents and comments on excerpts from a bill proposed to the Senate of the Empire in 1887 to create a new province between Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and São Paulo: The Sapucaí River Province. Politically, the project was aimed at weakening the growing power of polarization in the city of São Paulo and the strength of republican sectors there. It also dealt with other relevant aspects, questions and elements of the institutional, political and economic environment of the 1880s, such as the archaism of the dominant classes of the country and the extensive character of its agrarian economy, which delayed the implantation of agronomic innovations verified in other countries, at that time.

Keywords

• Brazil
• empire
• republic
• regional economy
• oligarchic power
• territory
• workforce
• slavery
• immigration
• innovations
• culture
• science
• teaching