Um eldorado fora de época: a exploração dos recursos naturais no Amapá

Abstract

This paper studies the beginning of the European imperialism, and tries to understand how that new expansion of capitalism caused perturbations on the French Guyana and Brazilian boarding. That land had belonged without institutional mechanics of regulation under state control for more than 200 years until 1900. The bourgeoisie wish of accumulation – “expanding by the expanding” – has Cecil Rhodes has defined it, created the conditions to the organization of several expeditions after 1884, a kind of scientist expeditions on the surface, but, trade enterprises on really. Someone financed by national state sources and others by privates sources, these expeditions had the mission to prospect and explore natural resources of nowadays Brazilian Amapá region’s.