The quill-pen and the blunderbuss: press and criminal narrative – an approach to the city in the nineteenth century

This article aims to analyze the journalistic narratives on violence in the city of Fortaleza in the second half of the nineteenth century. The objective is to understand how the discourses published in periodicals intended to control the population and the centralization of power in Fortaleza. The...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Silva, Sônia Maria de Meneses
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2017
Country:Brasil
Institution:Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC Minas)
Repository:Cadernos de História (Belo Horizonte. Online)
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.pucminas.br:article/12201
Online Access:https://periodicos.pucminas.br/cadernoshistoria/article/view/P.2237-8871.2017v18n28p100
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Cidade
Violência
Imprensa.
City
Violence
Press.
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Summary:This article aims to analyze the journalistic narratives on violence in the city of Fortaleza in the second half of the nineteenth century. The objective is to understand how the discourses published in periodicals intended to control the population and the centralization of power in Fortaleza. The emphasis is especially on events such as assassinations and police violence in the city space.