Registos centrais marques de pombal biography
The politics of language, the management of financial resources, the colonial administrative reorganization of the education and culture, were essential fields of reformist intervention to perceive how much the action of Marquês de Pombal was decisive and founding of the Brazil we have today. The reign of Joseph supported by the ultra-absolutist Minister Marquês de Pombal reinforces the centralist and anti-autonomist policy in relation to colonial territories. At a time when all over Europe and in some areas of Spanish America proliferated initiatives, agencies, educational and cultural institutions that favored the assumption of strong elites with critical thinking, in Brazil it was emphasized the impossibility of access to these training tools for a cultural mass capable of autonomously think their destinations. In the second half of the Enlightenment Century, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo and his policies of reinforcement of fidelity from the colonies to the metropolis deepened the process of unification of the lands of Vera Cruz, preventing divisions and disunity. Without the strong arm of Pombal’s policy, today it would not be a Brazil vast and united by its only language spoken, as currently observed, regardless of judgment that we can do to anthropological and cultural consequences of this gigantic construction