A criação da Companhia de Aprendizes - Marinheiros no processo de construção do Estado Nacional brasileiro: formação militar, educação e civilização no Brasil Imperial

Abstract

The creation of the Companhia de Aprendizes-Marinheiros in 1840, was the first initiative of the Brazilian Navy to organize a space dedicated to preparation, instruction and education of minors to form squares for Imperial Navy. The project developed in the late 1830s, he joined the St ate project that was being forged by the ruling class, with the conservative rise during the second half of the nineteenth century became a national scale project. Until 1874 were created 18 units throughout the country, all provinces of the Brazilian coas t and the province of Mato Grosso, opened its Companies Apprentices - Sailors. There was a combination of interest, while the Navy was looking for an alternative to forced recruitment, a practice that the institution believed not contribute to the maintenanc e of discipline and order in the war vessels, the modern Brazilian state builders saw in the institution a space to promote education and exercise control of the subaltern classes.