Militares de carreira: prosopografia do oficialato do Exército Brasileiro (1900-1954).

Abstract

This work focuses on the analysis of military careers through prosopography, or also known as collective biography, in the period between 1900-1954. Through this method and a documentary corpus composed of one hundred names, we sought to find elements that were common to these soldiers, and how they were present in the political life of the country in uprisings such as the Tenentista movement of 1922, the Revolution of 1930 and the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932, as well as in the coup of the Estado Novo in 1937, the Vargas government in 1945, the Eurico Gaspar Dutra government and, finally, the return and end of the Vargas administration. The objective of the research was to analyze the common elements among officers entering the army in the middle of 1900, such as the rise to patents and which school they belonged, as well as to investigate how the interpersonal relations developed.