From before to after: the Lumber's company influences in the outbreak of Contestado's movement and its impact in the frontier region between Paraná and Santa Catarina

Abstract

The followed text has been developed since three principal pivots, having as references the actions of Southern Brazil Lumber and Colonization Company in the Três Barras region, in the Contestado's Upland. The first one analyses the period before the company's advent, to elucidate the creation of inlander's life style through his practices and customs. The second pivot analyses the resulted impact of company's installation and the peculiarities of this process, like the land's owners expulsion, received by company, which accredited directly for the Contestado's Movement outbreak. The third one shows the results of the research that has been developed, which help to illuminate the period before the movement, focus in the implications of its permanence in the region for the next decades, like the worker's actions and the politic's collision, which the company took part. Even will be contemplate the company's state control process, and its transformation in a national army camp, in the fifties of twentieth century, while another violent land's dispossess procedure.