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Accepted Paper:

has pdf download The map that invented Brazil`s territory  
Junia Furtado (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)

Paper short abstract:

The objective is to investigate the collaboration established between the Portuguese diplomat Dom Luís da Cunha and the French cartographer D'Anville for the Carte de l'Amérique méridionale (1748) and how it was important to create Brazilian territory after the XVIII century.

Paper long abstract:

The objective of this paper is to investigate the collaboration established between the Portuguese diplomat Dom Luís da Cunha and the French cartographer Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon D'Anville for the Carte de l'Amérique méridionale (1748). The map was meant to serve the purposes of the Portuguese court in the negotiations of these boundary-lines between Spanish and Portuguese America that were taking place in Madrid since 1746. The Treaty of Madrid was finally signed in 1750, but D'Anville's map was not used in the negotiations. Although the Portuguese deliberated hide it, the map was a fundamental key to create the new borders of the Portuguese America, very similar as they are today. In fact, the map invented Brazil`s frontiers and was not a simple mirror of the territory. It reflected Dom Luís da Cunha's vision with regards to the Portuguese geopolitics that needed to be formulated for the Americas during the first half of the 18th century, and his view reflected in compiling the map. For him, it is important to notice, the establishment of a policy for the area was inseparable from the development of geographic knowledge of the region and he also gave the cartographic documents that the geographer used to draw the Carte de l'Amérique méridionale (1748).

Panel P04
The land issue in the early modern overseas empires
  Session 1 Wednesday 17 July, 2013, -