ROCHA, Z. H.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6333709242973703; ROCHA, Zulene de Holanda.
Résumé:
This dissertation aims to examine the first attempts to modernize in Oeiras-PI, the time
frame of 1900-1945, including the idea of seeking crisis attributed to this city by the intellectuals and the local political elite after the transfer of capital to these featuring the "decadent", generalizing the effect of the political crisis and some material loss. Which
in turn, not elapsed in its entirety by the loss of capital status, but by their own
economic conditions of the state and the municipality, however, not noted by this group
insisted that the tirade of "crisis." It also aims to understand the transformations in
everyday life oeirense from some achievements, such as theater, traveling cinema,
newspaper production, and strengthening the local economy caused by the extraction of
latex maniçoba in the early years of the twentieth century. Only after 1930 the political
and intellectual discourse points to the advent of local progress, which now has the following material and symbolic transformations: a) urban sanitation; b) construction of
the town hall, with modern architecture to the city standards; c) Installation of electric
light; d) construction of the airfield with weekly landing; e) film and square. The arrival
of these elements of modernity in a society characterized by parochial habits causes changes in sociability and sensitivities both within the elite and among the popular. The sources used in this work are based on surveys of official documents, oral, pictures, newspapers and local literature.
