Pela moralização do trabalho e prosperidade da indústria nacional: a escola agrícola união indústria (1864-1884)

Abstract

The Agricultural School Union Industry created in 1869 was the result of a series of policies and discussions that aimed to modernize the national agriculture, the context changes spurred the creation of several centers specializing in agriculture in the second half of the nineteenth century. We mentioned all the measures doses, which enabled the foundation of various companies and institutions related to agriculture, the main Brazilian industry at the time and main source of the Imperial state revenue. Were created in this context from the late 1850's and early 1860 several Imperial Institutes of Agriculture, as the Imperial Fluminense Institute, The Imperial Baiano Institute, The Imperial Institute of Pernambuco, Sergipe The Imperial Institute and The Imperial River Institute Rio-grandense. In parallel to the institutes the foundation of several companies linked to private capital as the Company Industry Association. This company founded by Mariano Procópio Ferreira Lage headed the foundation's Agricultural Industry Union School, the first school of classical studies inaugurated in 1869. Rooted in the province of Minas Gerais, in Juiz de Fora Municio, this institution would be the realization a wish expressed by the Imperial government since the arrival of the royal family to Brazil in 1808 and only found his blows after contractual settlement received by the Company Union industry in the year 1864. From this condition Mariano Procópio Ferreira Lage, founder and president Industry Union Company, starts a series of surveys in Europe seeking to meet the contractual requirement which provided the foundation of a practical school in agriculture, the choices and creating strategies that institution corroborated for founding an institute that exceeded expectations of the Imperial government, for the very contractual determination provided the foundation for a practical school in agriculture, but what we observe is the opening of an institute of classical studies in agriculture, the first school of its kind in Brazil. Our goal is to study the share of contribution of the first Agricultural School of Classical Studies in Brazil, revealing his assertion strategies and policies to promote agricultural science, drawing a parallel between the political and state related to agriculture and the Company's activities Industry Association in the second half of the nineteenth century.