The mill and engine. São Paulo e Pernambuco in different contexts and atributions in the Portuguese Colonial Empire (1580-1720)

Author(s)

Milena Fernandes Maranho

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2006-03-17

Examining board members

Laura de Mello e Souza; Leila Mezan Algranti; Silvia Hunold Lara; João Paulo Garrido Pimenta; Pedro Luis Puntoni

• Advisor: Laura de Mello e Souza

Abstract

Keeping in mind a distinction made by brazilian colonial historiography between \"São Paulo\'s poverty\" and \"Pernambuco\'s wealth\", we considered this contrast to study the economic and social places that São Paulo and Pernambuco occupied in the Portuguese Colonial Empire among 1580 - 1720. We believe that these \"places\" must been studied looking on the specific colonial regions\' contexts and atributions. Moreover, through the identification of comparisons in colonial documents, written at the seventeen and eighteen centuries, we can throw light on these ideas of \"poverty\" and \"wealth\", because we expect that they were constructed in determined moments in the past. Indeed, we intend to show that the economic concepts must been carefully thought when the colonial regions\' ativities are analysed according to their importance and especificities in America (AU)