Intelectuais, militares, instituições na configuraçõo das fronteiras brasileiras (1883–1903)

A specialist in the history of the Rio de Janeiro Geographical Society and in the study of the places of early Brazilian geography, Luciene Pereira Carris Cardoso addresses here the problem of the participation of intellectuals in Brazil's territorial formation at the beginning of the First Republic. The three cases taken into consideration are the border disputes Brazil undertook with Argentina (Las Palmas issue), with France (Amapá issue), and with Bolivia (Acre issue)