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La invasión francesa de Portugal en 1807 supuso el traslado de la Corte portuguesa y de los tribunales centrales de la monarquía al Brasil. Después de la llegada de la Corte a Río de Janeiro en 1808, por iniciativa del príncipe regente D. João y de sus ministros y en respuesta a la coyuntura, se prestó especial atención a la cuestión de las fronteras externas, tanto en el norte como en el sur. En la cuenca amazónica, pese a los distintos tratados, continuaba latente el conflicto en torno a la demarcación entre los territorios portugueses y franceses. La instalación de la Corte en Río de Janeiro y la declaración de guerra a Napoleón permitieron concebir la ocupación de Cayena, que capituló el 12 de enero de 1809. Los asuntos fiscales y de justicia de la nueva conquista fueron confiados a João Severiano Maciel da Costa (1769-1833), que permaneció en el territorio entre 1809 y 1807. Este magistrado concibió un proyecto ambicioso para las Guayanas, al que tituló Refleçoens Sobre a união das trez GUIANAS, PORTUGUEZA, FRANCEZA, E HOLLANDEZA, para formarem hum Reino, anexo ao IMPERIO DO BRASIL. Este texto constituye el marco del presente artículo, que se inscribe en la historia de las relaciones entre Portugal y Francia y en la historia de las fronteras de América del Sur.

Abstract: Over the centuries, human societies have sought to understand and to explain the violent manifestations of nature that hit them in the most diverse forms (droughts, intense rains and storms, floods, earthquakes, eruptions, plagues, epidemics). For a long time, too, the explanations provided were integrated into cosmologies or narratives that corresponded to types of magical or religious beliefs that, while giving a sense to the cosmos and seeking to alleviate the anxiety of ancient societies in the face of their vulnerability, legitimized a certain political and social order. One of the topics that is most evident in the research conducted in this area is that of natural disasters. It is not a matter of thinking about history as a catastrophe, as Walter Benjamin understood it, but of observing catastrophes as a “total social fact” (Marcel Mauss), insofar as their occurrence and the respective impacts affect multiple dimensions of the affected societies, revealing certain aspects that, under normal conditions, could go unnoticed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the context of the Portuguese pluricontinental monarchy, since the sixteenth century that the inhabitants of the Atlantic islands (Madeira and the Azores) were seen more than once as an important resource of the crown with the goal of peopling and defending the borderlands of the Portuguese empire in South America, in face of the pressure and competition from other European polities. In this article, we present the general outlines of that strategy of the Portuguese monarchy in the seventeenth century, with the beginning of the implementation of a policy of transporting "couples" from the Azores in order to establish the basis of white settlement in the imperial frontier in the Amazon region (Pará and Maranhão), a process that, like the recruits, was only interrupted with the independence of Brazil in 1822. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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