Maceió na guerra: política, cotidiano e a força expedicionária brasileira na capital alagoana (1940-1945)

Abstract

The present work aims to discuss some aspects and developments of the Second World War, in the capital Maceió, in Alagoas. It is based on the understanding of the political culture of the Góis Monteiro Interventory and its strategies against the war until the impacts and transformations in the daily life of Maceió, starting from the carnival, blackout, sinking of the merchant ship Itapagé, the vigilance around the immigrants and in the process of summoning Alagoas for the composition of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force (BEF). We understand, here, that the reading of these impacts of the war will be realized from the vision "of the bottom" in its diverse spaces of experience in the capital. Therefore, this research has as documentary contribution, mainly, newspapers (especially in the Hemerotecas of the Public Archive and of the Historical and Geographical Institute of Alagoas), military memory books and Reports produced by the Góis Monteiro Interventory. From the historiographical dialogue, there is mediation with productions of Cultural Social History, Political History and Military History.