Another view of the formation of the Brazilian State
07
Apr
Caio Prado Jr., wrote in 1942 Brazil Contemporary Formation which is a book around the three centuries of colonial Brazil, for
him the country was structured as a country colony “to provide tobacco, sugar some other genres; later, gold and diamonds; then, cotton, coffee, and then, for European trade, “revealing only the economic face.
In your country balance the work is negative in this colony stage, said: “extensive exploration and simply speculative, unstable in time and space, natural resources of the country”, made the country stay late and very strong land bases.
In his “rediscovery of Brazil” would be a more radical way than that of Gilberto Freyre and Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, as a Manichean view would be next to the “Well” along with Sergio Buarque de Holanda while Gilberto Freyre is the “Evil “a comparative analysis made by many historians São Paulo.
Caio Prado will always ask for the “sense of Brazilian history,” understood as “sense” the story of a people considered in a long-term process observing the essential elements, which direct the general events in the middle.
His political legacy is broader than his work, according to many historians, who point out that the author is often criticized for being economistic and criticized for failing to use primary sources.
I think that none of the works should be removed for a wider analysis of the origins of the Brazilian state, and along with Gilberto Freyre, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and Raymundo Faoro complete authors who make a wide reading of the origins of Brazilian thought.
