The politics of the coffee economy: the conflicts between the republican oligarchies in Taubaté's Convention Project

Autores

  • Caio César Vioto de Andrade Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" - UNESP (FCHS-Franca/SP)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.28998/rchv10n20.2019.0029

Resumo

This paper intends to deal with the approval process of the Taubaté Convention, in 1906, during the Rodrigues Alves government, which sought to solve the crisis generated by the fall in international coffee prices, the country's main export product since at least 1895. Towards the history of the politics, from Rosanvallon (2010), we consider the idea of "history making itself" that deals with how social and political actors understand a situation and how the political scope is permeated in modernity by tensions and conflicts, from which emanate social reflections and transformations, starting from political activity. In this way, we consider that the intervention of the State in the coffee economy, symbolized by the Convention, was not only an economic inevitability, but a political choice, after intense conflicts within the most important oligarchies of the First Republic, especially that of Sao Paulo, the main interested in the coffee valorization, and which conflicted with the President of the Republic, hesitant about the project.

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Biografia do Autor

Caio César Vioto de Andrade, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" - UNESP (FCHS-Franca/SP)

Mestre em História e Cultura Social. Doutorando em História e Cultura Política.

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Publicado

2020-03-20

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Vioto de Andrade, C. C. (2020). The politics of the coffee economy: the conflicts between the republican oligarchies in Taubaté’s Convention Project. Revista Crítica Histórica, 10(20). https://doi.org/10.28998/rchv10n20.2019.0029