War and Nationalism: Military Recruitment, Patriotic Donations, and Literature in the São Paulo Press, 1865-1866.
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2024-01-16
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The Paraguayan War was a monumental event in Brazilian history and had a significant impact on the development of the Brazilian identity. Although largely forgotten outside the Southern Cone, this conflict has much to offer military and social historians. This thesis looks to analyze the connection between the two most circulated newspapers in São Paulo, the Correio Paulistano and the Diário de S. Paulo, and nationalism during the first two years of effective combat in the Paraguayan War, 1865 and 1866. The thesis analyzes the intersection of the press and the war effort in three separate areas of impact: military recruitment, civilian war effort, and publication of propaganda. Newspapers were intimately involved with politics and these three separate areas of impact demonstrated that although Conservatives and Liberals differed on politics and how to conduct the war effort, they agreed on the idealized national identity projected in the war propaganda
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Brazil, Imperialism, Military Recruitment, State-Formation, Patriotic Donations
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Pereira, R. (2024). War and nationalism: military recruitment, patriotic donations, and literature in the São Paulo press, 1865-1866 (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.