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- Title
Antes do mito: Soldados-cidadãos da Guarda Nacional do Rio Grande do Sul (1850-1873).
- Authors
MUGGE, Miqueias H.
- Abstract
This paper explores the troops of citizen-soldiers and officers that took part in the National Guard in the province of Rio Grande do Sul, during the pivotal years of administrative centralization (1850- 1873). By doing so, it challenges the classic image of that province and its soldiers: they were not only peons, commanded by their landlord bosses. Drawing upon soldiers' and officers' qualification lists, this paper develops a more complex picture of the Brazilian society in its frontier, particularly focusing on poor, free and freed men who were also citizens. Being the National Guard the crucial gear of the hybrid military system of the country, one can conclude that throughout its networks of interdependence the war affairs were administered in the borderlands, shaping also the essence of the Imperial State.
- Subjects
RIO Grande do Sul (Brazil : State); BRAZIL; RIO Grande do Sul (Brazil : State) politics &; government; HISTORY of government decentralization; MILITARY history; BORDERLANDS; MILITARY reserve forces; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Varia História, 2018, Vol 34, Issue 64, p123
- ISSN
0104-8775
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0104-87752018000100005