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| Author(s): |
Alberto Camargo Portella
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2022-12-07 |
| Examining board members: |
Rafael de Bivar Marquese;
Nelson Mendes Cantarino;
Leonardo Marques;
Nivia da Conceição Pombo
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| Advisor: | Rafael de Bivar Marquese |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation aims to understand which factors established the commercial rice cultivation in Portuguese America at the end of the eighteenth century. At the same time, it connects that development to reformists writings about agriculture issued in Portugal at the same period. Indeed rice was among the many commodities which constituted the Portuguese Empire\' late eighteenth century movement of productive diversification. The colony\'s export records show successful commercial cultivation of the crop in American soil. We aim to understand such transformation in light of the development of global rice markets dynamics and the impact of Enlightened Reformations on it. Moreover, those conditions also meant the rise of intellectual disputes on riziculture through a variety of writings on this crop and agriculture. To evaluate these transformations, we analyze the organization of riziculture in some parts of Portuguese America at the end of the century and those writings which tried to remodel the rice production with almost no success. Those two changes, one related to production and the other to reformists texts, are understood through some analysis of the rice market during the 18th century and the shifts in the Portuguese economic thinking. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 19/12541-2 - Colonial rice in the Portuguese enlightened reforms (1750 - 1808) |
| Grantee: | Alberto Camargo Portella |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |