Sobre a pouca importância do Ceará no movimento expansionista português em direção à América Espanhola

Abstract

This paper identifies the less importance of Ceara, at time of the Portuguese definitive occupation in Brazil during the 18th century. The analyses focuses the little technologic inversion of Portuguese ways of territory controlling, as an sign of Portuguese little interest about the land of Ceara on the expansionist movement to the boundaries with the Hispanic America.