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Research notes on the National Guard lists

Autores

  • Miquéias Henrique Mugge

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/hist.2022.262.16

Resumo

This note presents preliminary results from a research project that draws from
the lists of the Brazilian National Guard. It aims to study the group of active citizens
of the Brazilian Empire in the mid-nineteenth century. It comprises a quantitative and
detailed study of the composition of the National Guard and the documents produced
by the institution in the provinces of Ceará, Rio Grande do Sul and Rio de Janeiro. The
work reveals major regional differences regarding the distribution of incomes of the free
male population who joined the ranks of the Guarda and ventures into possible causes
of this marked regional inequality. Finally, it points to future possibilities and underlines
the urgent need for partnerships that will allow the databases compiled during the project
to be fully explored by future historiography.

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2022-05-25

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