VIAGEM A SERVIÇO DO ESTADO

In the 19th century, Para experienced an enrichment from latex, but also an epidemic of malaria and food shortages. To remedy these problems, Lauro Sodre, governor of the state, granted “civilizing” incentives and financed inspection trips, such as Ignacio Moura's to Itacayunas in 1896. He defended livestock and rural sanitation as keys to local development, identifying fevers intermittent (malaria) barriers. Thus, based on the theoretical basis of Social and Political History, methodological support of discursive textual analysis and through the source travel literature, we aim to analyze the construction of the political-social discourse that uses diseases acquired in chestnut trees as a justification for changing the economic dynamics regional.