Uma quadra, uma légua : Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brasil e seu projeto de desenvolvimento para a atividade agropastoril no Rio Grande do Sul.

Abstract

The ideals of Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brazil were the main focus of our thesis, from which we investigate its main ideals, on philosophical and political grounds, and his theses on economic of the Rio Grande do Sul state development and how they influenced the State South Rio Grande in the early twentieth century, especially during the First Republic (1889-1930). The main objective was to analyze the rural development project championed by Joaquim Francisco Assis Brazil to Rio Grande do Sul. To achieve this goal, we analyze aspects of the pastoral activity and the political and economic decline of the ranchers in the region Campaign, South Half RS, we investigated about the disputes over South Rio Grande political hegemony in the early republican period, and finally, we seek to understand how, in his time, our character is positioned on the prevailing philosophies in the world. Followed by the methodological approach of historical materialism to build a dialogue with the literature and documents of the time and, from them, we set our hypothesis that Assis Brazil built the Pedras Altas Grange as a model farm, farm-laboratory to it by in practice the theses defended, with theoretical foundations, about the progress of creation and farming on small land area, with the founding base triad educationwealth- culture grounded in its most beloved premise: the earth as real source of wealth of the people.