A Importância do Tratado de Madri na formação da fronteira oeste: a dinâmica social entre portugueses e as sociedades indígenas na fronteira do Mato Grosso do Século XVII

Abstract

The present studytried to demonstrate the importance of the Treaty of Madrid in forming the border of western Brazil, in the region of the Captaincy of Mato Grosso, in the eighteenth century. And so, to analyze the complex social dynamics in the region of Mato Grosso eighteenth century, and how this dynamic was also a determining factor to ensure the Portuguese territorial possessions in this region. In the analyzes of this social dynamic, the relations between the portuguese and indigenous societies were focused (Guaicurus and Payaguás), demonstrating the important function of these societies in the border's formation of the region of Mato Grosso. Files and historical documents as primary sources were used in this research, and it was discussed in the first chapter the Treaty of Madrid. At The second chapter,an analysis of the formation of the border of Mato Grosso(XVIII) and its social dynamics was done.