The space and the history of education in Minas Gerais: an analysis from the Campanha da Princesa in the nineteenth century

Abstract

This article aims to address education in Campanha da Princesa, the most important city in the southern region of Minas Gerais in the 19th century. In order to deal with education in Campanha we seek to situate it within the process of changing the social and political axis of the captaincy of Minas which occurred after an intense development of the Comarca do Rio das Mortes in the late eighteenth century. We emphasize Campanha as central element of this process and the construction of a territorial identity that gave rise to the idea of the south of Minas as a specific region. We present some peculiarities of the education and of the public that was in its schools emphasizing its specificity, especially when compared with other regions of Minas Gerais. Thus, we try to point out some elements that signal the importance of considering regional specificities in the analyzes produced by the history of education in Minas Gerais.