archivists, antiquarians, geographers and civil servants within the India Office reorganised the records of the East India Company, the Board of Control and the India Office itself into what is now the India Office Records. My thesis focuses on the earliest materials of the East India Company - the records of its trading activities in the Indian Ocean from 1600 to 1623 - and how these materials were absorbed into the India Office Records between 1875 and 1891. I study the documents themselves as evidence of a complex early modern documentary culture; then I study the processes by which they were absorbed into the India Office Records, classified, edited, interpreted, and publicized. I argue that the creators of the India Office Records - civil servants, antiquarians and geographers such as George Birdwood, F. C. Danvers, William Foster and Clements R. Markham - organised and interpreted their materials in the service of a teleological historiography of empire. I situate the archive's creation within the contexts of nineteenth-century archival, antiquarian and historiographical practice, the crisis of 'high imperialism' in the late nineteenth century, and the development of the 'exhibitionary complex', and locate it within the scholarly and governmental formations of the time. Ultimately I hope to demonstrate how the archive itself, as an apparently neutral repository of historical information, was in fact instrumental in the production of imperial discourse and ideology

Este estudo tem como principal objeto de anÃlise as prÃticas de nobilitaÃÃo e distinÃÃo social desenvolvidas pelos membros da elite da vila de Santa Cruz do Aracati na Capitania do Siarà grande entre os anos de 1748 e 1804. Tendo a CÃmara de Aracati como principal espaÃo de referÃncia para a identificaÃÃo da elite da vila, buscamos perceber de que forma o ingresso em espaÃos como: a CÃmara da vila, os postos de oficiais nas tropas militares locais, as irmandades e o exercÃcio de atividades mercantis, entre outros; foram sendo incorporados pelos membros da elite da vila, nÃo somente como mecanismos de poder, mas, tambÃm, de aquisiÃÃo e ampliaÃÃo de seu referencial distintivo enquanto parte da ânobreza civilâ, estatuto social com o qual identificavam-se as elites locais do impÃrio portuguÃs moderno. / This research claims to analyze the ennoblement and social distinction practices developed by the town of Santa Cruz do Aracati members in the Captaincy of Siarà grande along the period from 1748 to 1804. Since the Chamber of Aracati is the main reference area to precede the identification of the local elite, first, we have intended to understand how the entry was made in certain areas, such as the Town Chamber, the officer ranks in the local military troops, some brotherhoods, the mercantile activities, and some other employments; and, then, how all these occupations were incorporated by the town elite members, both as mechanisms of power and tools of acquisition and enlargement of its distinctive reference as part of a âcivil nobilityâ, social code with which the local elites of the Portuguese Modern Empire used to identify to.

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NOGUEIRA, Gabriel Parente. Fazer-se nobre nas fímbrias do império: práticas de nobilitação e hierarquia social da elite camarária de Santa Cruz do Aracati (1748-1804). 2010. 358 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em História) - Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de História, Programa de Pós-Graduação em História Social, Fortaleza-CE, 2010. / Submitted by Raul Oliveira (raulcmo@hotmail.com) on 2012-06-25T13:57:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_Dis_GPNogueira.pdf: 6734856 bytes, checksum: 39732265bd95cd89dd557af233bbd57c (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-06-25T16:37:10Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_Dis_GPNogueira.pdf: 6734856 bytes, checksum: 39732265bd95cd89dd557af233bbd57c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-06-25T16:37:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_Dis_GPNogueira.pdf: 6734856 bytes, checksum: 39732265bd95cd89dd557af233bbd57c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / This research claims to analyze the ennoblement and social distinction practices developed by the town of Santa Cruz do Aracati members in the Captaincy of Siará grande along the period from 1748 to 1804. Since the Chamber of Aracati is the main reference area to precede the identification of the local elite, first, we have intended to understand how the entry was made in certain areas, such as the Town Chamber, the officer ranks in the local military troops, some brotherhoods, the mercantile activities, and some other employments; and, then, how all these occupations were incorporated by the town elite members, both as mechanisms of power and tools of acquisition and enlargement of its distinctive reference as part of a “civil nobility”, social code with which the local elites of the Portuguese Modern Empire used to identify to. / Este estudo tem como principal objeto de análise as práticas de nobilitação e distinção social desenvolvidas pelos membros da elite da vila de Santa Cruz do Aracati na Capitania do Siará grande entre os anos de 1748 e 1804. Tendo a Câmara de Aracati como principal espaço de referência para a identificação da elite da vila, buscamos perceber de que forma o ingresso em espaços como: a Câmara da vila, os postos de oficiais nas tropas militares locais, as irmandades e o exercício de atividades mercantis, entre outros; foram sendo incorporados pelos membros da elite da vila, não somente como mecanismos de poder, mas, também, de aquisição e ampliação de seu referencial distintivo enquanto parte da “nobreza civil”, estatuto social com o qual identificavam-se as elites locais do império português moderno.