SOCIO-SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROVINCE OF MARANHÃO

the bibliographic review as a guiding thread

Abstract

In national historiography, the theme province is relevant in the sense of understanding Brazil in the nineteenth century. Therefore, the objective is to contribute to the debate from the empirical reality of the Province of Maranhão in which the political, economic, and socio-spatial transformations are emphasized. To this end, the discussion is based on historical and dialectical materialism that made it possible to use the following procedures: bibliographic survey; cartographic survey; analysis, selection and interpretation of the information and data obtained. The results reveal that, in the Province of Maranhão, the Empire used strategies such as indigenous colonization, the implantation of settlements of foreigners, attempts to raise the economy, improvements in territorial articulation and resolution of territorial disputes in order to enable political domination and control of the territory, but faced the Republic of Pastos Bons and A Balaiada that put it in check. It is concluded that, in practice, this context reflected what occurred on a national and international scale, so that the Province of Maranhão changed little in the political and economic structure.