Knowledge and power: social thought in Ceará at the end of the 19th century

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Almir Leal de Oliveira
Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1829-5498
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35260/54211918-2024

Keywords:

History, Intellectuals from Ceará, Social thought from Ceará

Synopsis

You know the saying that “knowledge is power”? In his research, historian Almir Leal realized that it is more than true, especially when we talk about Ceará society in the 19th century. Without the creation of a “modernizing” thought, the image of Ceará as a “land of light” or freedom would not have been established.
By focusing on the creation of this “Ceará social thought”, Almir Leal brought to light the ideas that influenced the decisions of the elite and helped to establish Ceará in the following century. Knowledge and Power is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the history of Ceará.

Chapters

  • The literate universe in the province
    institutions, readings and readers
  • The social movements of the 1880s and social thought
  • The literate universe and the construction of a narrative for Ceará

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Author Biography

Almir Leal de Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)

Bachelor of History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1992), specialist in Brazilian History from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (1995), master (1998) and doctor (2001) in Social History from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. He has been a professor of theory and methodology of history and Brazilian history in the History Department of the Federal University of Ceará since 1992, where he works in the Graduate Program in History (2002) and in the Graduate Program in Brazilian Education (2012). He held the Joaquim Nabuco Chair in Brazilian Studies at the Center for Latin American Studies (2010-2011) at Stanford University, where he also completed his postdoctoral studies in the Department of Biology. He is the leader of the research group Colonial Ceará: economy, memory and society (2003), of the Directory of Research Groups in Brazil of the CNPq.

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December 1, 2024

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