The Conservatie Political Work anda Profissionalization of the Army Corps of Officials: The Debate on the Law of Promotions of 1850.
Army; Imperial Politics; Law of Promotions
SILVA, Daniela Marques da. The Conservatie Political Work anda Profissionalization of the Army Corps of Officials: The Debate on the Law of Promotions of 1850. 2018. Dissertation (Masters in History). Instituto de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Departamento de História e Relações Internacionais, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, RJ, 2018.
This dissertation is interested on the Army’s conservative politics in the moment of consolidation of the Imperial State, taking as object the law no. 585 of September, the sixth, 1850. The law determined, in broad terms, that the access to official posts would be gradual and successive, from lieutenants until marshal of the Army. The law of promotions has provoked changes in the organization of the Army official corps, since it has established minimum requirements of service time and instruction. The law is part of the political work undertaken by the conservatives during the decades of 1840 and 1850. The dissertation aims, besides identifying who were the deputies that have discussed the law in the Parliament, to analyze how the law appear in parliamentary speeches, in ministerial reports and in determined newspapers of the epoch. This dissertation will be composed of three chapter where it will be possible to address the Brazilian imperial politics, the law of promotions of 1850, the political actors involved in the debate about the law, the law projects that have been under discussion in the Deputies Chamber, and the law of promotions outside the Parliament.