A imprensa em pauta: entre as contendas e paixões partidárias dos jornais Cearense, Pedro II e Constituição na segunda metade do século XIX

Abstract

This work analises questions concerning the use of the press, such as newspapers as a start of a talking point about the politics of the political parties of Ceará, in the second half of the 19th Century. It was led by journalists an press people as well as readers (specially readers qualified as voters, as the voter’s reforms of 1881) of the liberal organ of Cearense (1846-1891) and of the papers Pedro II (1840-1881) and the Constituituon (1863-1889), both conservative. The journalistic arena formed by these people was set in discussions the intensity of the ideals of the political parties assossiated to the press, specially in the province in those moments that the press people rethink their political roles as intelectual, because of the imminence of being excluded from voting, and thus, they used the newspapers to which they worked as a strategy of claiming, and when the voters did not confess clearly their political ideals or of any other orders. It was used therefore the newspapers from this area, and articles of newspapers of the Ceará’s Institute and from the Lyrics Academy from Ceará and from the Historic and Geographic Institute from Brazil, besides comics, ad diverse documents that belongs to the files of the Public Files from Ceará and from the Public Library Governador Menezes Pimentel/Ce, as well as rarities from the history of Ceará, as well as other documents and bibliography of theoric and methodologic references.