A historiografia naval brasileira no século XIX: o pionerismo de Theotonio Meirelles da Silva (1876-1884)

Abstract

Naval history has its focus on the war sea in an interdisciplinary perspective. However, for a long time it has been overshadowed in military history and remained overlooked by historiography itself. In many countries, the social, political and cultural roles of naval history were poorly acknowledged. It was not different in Brazil. In the face of the contemporary historiographic perspective, the purpose of the dissertation was to analyze the historiographic output of Theotonio Meirelles da Silva, pioneer at writing a Brazilian naval history, by putting his works into his context. Through the lens of the author, it sought to correlate the methodological-historical narrative concerning his works with the formation of a national history conducted by the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro, and also to identify the construction of the Brazilian Imperial Navy?s journey as a reflection of its social and political reality