The transport of commodities between Pernambuco and Portugal: quantification, hierarchies and mercantile groups in Portuguese Atlantic (1755-1807)

• Grant number: 14/11038-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: December 01, 2014
• End date: May 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Modern and Contemporary History
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Maximiliano Mac Menz
• Grantee: Felipe Souza Melo
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 15/13763-8 - The transport of commodities between Pernambuco and Portugal: quantification, hierarchies and mercantile groups in Portuguese Atlantic(1755-1807), BE.EP.MS

Abstract

This study takes as its central object the transporters who worked between Pernambuco and Portugal in the second half of the eighteenth century, aiming to identify their hierarchy through loads transported. Identifying and hierarchizing this group we will know which commercial agents who commanded the transport and its possible ramifications on other economic groups both metropolitan and colonial. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

MELO, Felipe Souza. The business of Pernambuco: financing, trade and shipping in the second half of the eighteenth century. 2017. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.