The import houses of Santos and its agents: commerce and material culture (1870-1900)

• Grant number: 12/51197-6
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants - Publications - Books published in Brazil
• Start date: February 01, 2014
• End date: August 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Heloisa Maria Silveira Barbuy
• Grantee: Heloisa Maria Silveira Barbuy
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

During the three last decades of the nineteenth century, in the bulge of internationalization process, gradually new practices are installed in the commerce of Santos, characterized, in this period, by the predominance of import firms, the incipient structure of the port, the activities performed in the urban center and the problems of basic sanitation. The analyses focuses on the import houses installed in the adjacencies of the Port of Santos and its agents, foreigners in most cases, on the variety of products that they make to arrive at the Province of São Paulo, its advertising and commercialization. The perspective is the material culture history, searching one better understanding of the social changes that take piece with the consumption of foreign products, day practices that involve them and values that are attributed to them. (AU)