The Arrow and the Target – The origins, the transformations and the function of the course in the History of Cartography taught by Jaime Cortesão at Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Abstract

Through the methodization of the contents and the teaching of the History of Cartography, Jaime Cortesão fabricated a narrative and a pedagogy of Brazil's national territory evolution, which joint in the same role Alexandre de Gusmão and Rio Branco. This fabrication served to rescue the role of Brazilian diplomats in the invention of the Nation and to the recomposition of brazilian foreign policy after the Second World War.

Keywords

• Jaime Cortesão
• Barão do Rio Branco
• Instituto Rio Branco
• História da Cartografia
• História da Formação Territorial do Brasil.