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| Author(s): |
Felipe de Melo Alvarenga
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2019-05-28 |
| Examining board members: |
Ricardo Figueiredo Pirola;
Manoela da Silva Pedroza;
Fernando Teixeira da Silva
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| Advisor: | Ricardo Figueiredo Pirola |
| Abstract | |
The Vale do Paraíba was known as the most opulent region of the Brazilian Empire, where the coffee culture provided great wealth, introducing our economy in the international scenario of the nineteenth century. The fast territorial appropriation, marked by the advance of the agricultural frontier, gave rise to several coffee farms. Those undertakings still continue inculcating our image on the region, moreover, quite familiar to the present day. On the other hand, the formation and reproduction of coffee property in the Serra Acima cannot be taken as a natural result of an open frontier, which was quickly used by the Coffee Barons. The objective of this dissertation is to understand the conditions of coffee property realization, in the theoretical terms of Rosa Congost. For this, we will present the several historical actors involved in the struggle for property rights in that locality, taking Valença, located southwest of the Capitania and then Rio de Janeiro Province, as the object area. The method mobilized in this research consisted of a nominative link of sources: we crossed the names of those farmers who declared their lands in the Parish Registers, created by the Regulation of the Land Law of 1850, with civil and criminal processes before and after the registration of these lands. In this sense, the tortuous property creation will be evaluated from the confrontation between the legislative code, which particularized a certain property, with the social relations that expand, in turn, the interested historian's vision at the various forms of "being owners". When we present the discontinuities of the coffee plantation installation in Valença, we will tend to denaturalize the notion of property from its conditions of realization (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/18127-8 - The "good farmer" and his "encostados": strategies and struggle for land in the city of Valença (1850-1888) |
| Grantee: | Felipe de Melo Alvarenga |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |