Outras faces da história: Manaus de 1910-1940

Abstract

In this research, we analyze Manaus city history within the time 1910-1940, through its physical structure, considering the buildings, the streets, the districts, the bridges, the roads and others, as moments and parts of all the city is, because it only becomes comprehensible by means of study about its several manifestations and behaviors. For developing our investigation about the city, the theorical and methodological part more adapted for our purposes was the new cultural history, because it is the history interpretation perspective that enables the addition of other theorical standards, integrating the general and the particular. Through this analysis, we intend give voice to official documentation issued by municipal governors and councilmen, such as governmental message sent to State Legislative Assembly, the Expositions sent to Federal Government, the Council reports sent to Municipal Chamber and the municipal messages sent to State Government. We appreciate the cross of these informations with the provided communications by other origins: periodicals and yearbooks, albums and almanacs made within the investigated time and the bibliography concerned to the subject. We conclude this research, noting Manaus from 1910 to1940 was a city in boiling: small and large constractions, population growth, the physical space of the city in expansion. And more, the public power, pressioned by different social interests, no longer could hear only the elite, it was obliged, by virtue of economic circumstances and socio cultural, to give answers to the demands of the residents of the suburbs and agricultural areas of the city.