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

Author(s)

Carina Marcondes Ferreira Pedro

• 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: 2010-10-20

Examining board members

Heloisa Maria Silveira Barbuy; Marisa Midore Deaecto; Esmeralda Blanco Bolsonaro de Moura

• Advisor: Heloisa Maria Silveira Barbuy

Abstract

The present study is called The import houses of Santos: commerce and material culture (1870-1900). 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 place with the consumption of foreign products, daily practices that involve them and values that are attributed to them. (AU)