Um periódico em defesa da indústria nacional: análise da Tribuna Militar (1881-82)

Abstract

This article intends to analyse the ideas of the journal Tribuna Militar (1881-82) about economic issues, especially its emphatic defense of national industry and its virulent criticism of the agricultural nature of the Brazilian economy. For us, this newspaper, already studied by authors like John Schulz and William S. Dudley, and published by the Brazilian military in the beginning of the decade of political and military crisis that brought about the fall of the monarchy, might indicate that the rebellion against imperial authorities was not only a matter of corporate pride. This rebellion expressed, even if not explicitly, the opposition to the dominant social and economic structure that was based on slavery and on the exportation of primary products.