José Flávio Motta

• Abstract

  In this thesis we study the characteristics of internal slave trade in the Empire of Brazil during the last decades of slavery in the context of the expansion of coffee plantation through the province of São Paulo. Our analysis focuses on four paulista towns (Areias, Guaratinguetá, Constituição (Piracicaba), and Casa Branca) that followed the trajectory of coffee expansion. The first two …

  Slaves here, there and beyond: the internal trafficking of slaves in São Paulo coffee expansion (Areias, Guaratinguetá, Constituição/Piracicaba and Casa Branca, 1861-1887), PUB.LVR.BR
• Bodies slaves, free wills, PUB.LVR

• Abstract

  We intend to explore the analysis and information, published in various newspapers in different provinces of the Empire of Brazil and in several states of the Brazilian Republic, about the banking reform outlined in the last two Imperial Cabinets, as well as that implemented in the first Republican government. In other words, our intention is to follow, in several newspapers during the pe…

  'Oh! Quantas species!...': 'metalistas' and 'papelistas' in the Brazilian press, 1888-1892, BP.IC

• Abstract

  The project will consist of a comparative analysis of the books "Economic Growth of Brazil" and the two editions of "Economic Development of Latin America", aiming to better understand the ideas of Furtado while they evolved. (AU)

  From the Economic Growth of Brazil to the Economic Development of Latin America: comparative analysis, BP.IC

• Abstract

  This research project aims to nuance the understanding of slavery in nineteenth-century Brazil, through a serial analysis of two of the basic elements of economics and demographics of slavery - the ownership structure of slaves and the slave family - in Grão-Pará, along the nineteenth century. The research focuses on population dynamics and on the patterns of slaveholding, as well as the …

  Revisiting the economics and the demography of slavery in the nineteenth century Amazon: a study on the slaveholding and the slave family in Grão-Pará, Brazil (1801-1888), BP.DR

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• Abstract

  This project supports request for international research scholarship for the Research Foundation of the State of São Paulo (FAPESP), Brazil, complementary to the PhD project "Cultural societies, anonymous societies: economic issues of cultural spaces in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo (1904-1922)" currently in progress at the Department of Economic History from the Faculty of Philosophy, Let…

  Cultural societies, anonymous societies: economic issues of cultural spaces in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (1904-1922), BE.EP.DD