Abstract
This article analyzes the dynamics of political communication on the southern border of the Portuguese territory and the Brazilian Empire, between the 1810s and the beginning of the 1830s, with the captaincy/province of Santa Catarina as a backdrop. The objective is to understand the relationship between the conflicts and the circulation of information, both those directly related to warlike actions and those referring to the conflicting political projects that marked that period. Thus, it was possible to perceive that, in the case of Santa Catarina, several individuals who circulated through the region participated in this process, circumscribed to the territorial dynamics referring to the Atlantic space and the interior of the territory that would become Santa Catarina and, consequently, Brazilian. Documents exchanged between the authorities responsible for deliberating military actions in the province are used as sources, safeguarded in the National Archive of Rio de Janeiro (ANRJ), in the Army Historical Archive (RJ), and in the Public Archive of the State of Santa Catarina (APESC), as well as contemporary reports.
Keywords:
Southern frontier; political communication; Imperial Brazil; Santa Catarina