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O chamado «mito da Ilha-Brasil» correspondeu a uma das ideias centrais do pensamento geopolítico
de Jaime Cortesão, desenvolvido quando este historiador português apresentou no Ministério das
Relações Exteriores do Brasil, entre 1944 e 1950, uma importante série de cursos sobre a História da
Cartografia e as fronteiras brasileiras. No seu entender, uma razão geográfica de Estado oposta ao
Tratado de Tordesilhas preside à formação territorial do Brasil, lógica essa que teria as suas primeiras
expressões literárias e cartográficas no século XVI, prolongando-se depois no tempo, a ponto de a
podermos reencontrar no pensamento de Alexandre de Gusmão e subjacente à estratégia arquitectada
por Portugal para a negociação do Tratado de Madrid (1750). Nesse sentido, os mapas antigos
funcionariam como um reflexo particularmente tangível da consciência precoce da unidade geográfica,
económica e humana desse território inteiro e da vontade política de o dominar.
The so-called "Brazil‟s island myth" corresponds to one of the central geopolitical ideas the Portuguese historian Jaime Cortesão developed when presented at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, between 1944 and 1950, an important series of courses on the History of Cartography and Brazilian borders. In his view, a geographic reason of State opposite to the Treaty of Tordesillas presides over the territorial formation of Brazil. This logic would have its first literary and cartographical expressions in the sixteenth century, extending later in time, so that we can find it behind the thought of Alexandre de Gusmão and underlying the strategy crafted by Portugal for the negotiation of the Treaty of Madrid (1750). In this sense, old maps reflected in a particularly tangible way the early awareness of the geographical, economic and human unity of that entire territory and the political will to dominate it.
The so-called "Brazil‟s island myth" corresponds to one of the central geopolitical ideas the Portuguese historian Jaime Cortesão developed when presented at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, between 1944 and 1950, an important series of courses on the History of Cartography and Brazilian borders. In his view, a geographic reason of State opposite to the Treaty of Tordesillas presides over the territorial formation of Brazil. This logic would have its first literary and cartographical expressions in the sixteenth century, extending later in time, so that we can find it behind the thought of Alexandre de Gusmão and underlying the strategy crafted by Portugal for the negotiation of the Treaty of Madrid (1750). In this sense, old maps reflected in a particularly tangible way the early awareness of the geographical, economic and human unity of that entire territory and the political will to dominate it.
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Jaime Cortesão Formação territorial do Brasil Pensamento geográfico História da cartografia Geopolítica
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Oliveira, F. Roque de (2017). “Brazil’s Island” by Jaime Cortesão: geographical ideas and cartographic expression of a geopolitical concept. BIBLIO 3W, XXII(1.191). ISSN: 1138-9796