O processo de formação territorial de Angicos (1760-1836)

Abstract

This research aims to discuss the changes occurred in the territorial formation process of Angicos / RN, since its colonial occupation recorded in the second half of the seventeenth century until the establishment of the village, in the first half of the nineteenth century. The relationship between the production of space and the struggle for political power are especially focused in this text. To understand these relationships, the following sources were used: Newspaper The Republic, Report of the Province of Presidents, Provincial Decree that creates the Village of Angicos and the Parish of St. Joseph, postures Code of Angicos Chamber, Rescue Project collection of documents Historical Documentation of Baron of Rio Branco and letters of grounds, found in SILBPlatform (Sesmarias do Império Luso Brasileiro - or Grounds of Portuguese/Brazilian Empire). The methodology developed to understand the space issue associated with social context and colonial / imperial / polictic, by analyzing the documentary and bibliographical sources in order to discuss the territorial formation of Angicos underneath of historiography aggregation about the theme developed. In the considerations that were presented were taken as basethe concepts of Milton Santos about territory, space, Henri Lefevre and place, Claudia Damasceno.