Around the World of the Benjamin Constant: for a Global History of Jiu-Jitsu

Abstract

This article aims to bring into discussion a well know episode, the arriving of the firsts Japanese Jiu-Jitsu’s instructors among Brazilians mariners in the Benjamin Constant, a warship from Brazilian Navy in the early 20^th Century. The originality is on behalf of integrate global history approach, a perspective created by the German historian Sabastian Conrad. In order to deliver this purpose, we are going to examine primary sources from diverse spaces, highlighting the synchronicity of the historical phenomena globally observed.