A questão da Ilha da Trindade (1895-1896): uma revisão historiográfica

Abstract

Addressed for the studies of Political History, the present work has as scope focus on the Brazilian historiographical revision about the Question of the Trinity Island (1895-1896). It starts considering the contemporary value of the Island, in natural and economic terms, presents aspects avoided academically, but usually exploited by the media: the search of treasures, the UFOs research and the latent power of exotic tourism -, and develops an historiographic analysis about the theme, from the sixteen century cartography up to the Question at the end of the nineteenth century. Concerning the works that approached the Question, it shows how it contributed to identify and to compile the primary documents and fonts in the Brazilian and Portuguese historical files, divulging them to the public and make them available to the researchers, that utilised them at that moment (and after) to build a kind of revisionist, factual and descriptive narrative, affirmative of the nationality, that passed over the decades up to the end of the twentieth century.