“Os Homens bons do povo”: a rotatividade de cargos na Câmara de São Luís

Abstract

This work aims to observe the process of maintaining men in the city hall of São Luís, in order to relate this rotation to an idea of the status of power in the north of the Portuguese colony. To do so, we used the documents of the book of concordances of the city council of São Luís in the years 1646 to 1652. This work is divided into three parts, in the first one it looks at the modern states and serves as a theoretical basis for the development of search. On the municipal chambers in the tropics, seeking to observe their purposes without managing the living in the colonies an, finally, to analyze the cases of rotation in the city of São Luís.