A The Navy in the Amazon

performance and technical modernization issues (late 19th and early 20th)

  • William Gaia Farias Professor da Faculdade de História e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História Social da Amazônia da Universidade Federal do Pará. Doutor em História Social pela Universidade Federal Fluminense. Pós-Doutor pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
  • Pablo Nunes Pereira Graduado em História pela Faculdade de História – FAHIS da Universidade Federal do Pará – UFPA. Pesquisador do Grupo de Pesquisa Militares, poder e sociedade na Amazônia.
Keywords: Technical modernization, National Security, Naval Power

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze relevant aspects of the great discussion about the technical modernization of the Brazilian Navy, specially about the Amazon Flotilla. In that way, we verified the international process known as “arms race” and the reflects in Brazil on issues such as avaliations about the brazilian naval power, the situation of the navy’s material and staff and yet the actions in order of acquisitions of ships according to the national ambitions and conditions, navigation and the Amazon security at the end of nineteenth and beginning of twentieth centuries.

Published
2020-06-15
Issue
Vol 10 No 20 (2014): Revista Navigator - Dossiê Tecnologia naval e história: ciência, técnica e sujeitos
Section
Dossie