Paper short abstract:

This paper seeks to illustrate how the small archipelago of Cape Verde will be transformed into a bureaucratic machine in the service of colonial modernity, especially during the Iberian hegemony of modernity, especially from 1614.

Paper long abstract:

This paper seeks to illustrate how the small archipelago of Cape Verde will be transformed into a «bureaucratic machine» in the service of colonial modernity, especially during the Iberian hegemony of modernity. From 1614 the then-called «Cape Verde» is now formally a territorial discontinued space, including islands and continental African clods, which will be turning increasingly a subordinate cosmopolitan space. The emphasis on «official» and «formal» character change in costumes of the islands has the justification that the practice of institutionalization status has started much earlier given that the roots of this feature subaltern cosmopolitan African archipelago dates back to the beginning of the occupation Portuguese in 1460, and thereafter begins to institutionalize a «modern» colonization machine that will be exported to the «Americas». After independence, the state ends, as well as ruptures and transformations, some continuities of that «bureaucratic machine».