An incentive to the wise ones: the members of IHGB and the centralinzing project monarch (1839-1850)

Abstract

We will try to highlight the effort of members of the IHGB in building the image of themselves and their colleagues. The speeches analyzed had as main objective to encourage the members of the institute to the research in the composition of national history. However, the rhetoric around that image would give such scholars the legitimacy of the discourse on the nation, the monopoly of its definition. When analyzing the rhetoric utilized in speeches delivered on the magna sessions of the anniversary of the association, it is noticeable that the scholars, protected by His Majesty the Emperor D. Pedro II, were intending to build an self image of people that necessary for the progress of the nation and for the triumph of the project for Centralization of Power, which was launched with the Golpe da Maioridade.