Mecanismos de redistribuição de riqueza e formação de famílias proprietárias em área de fronteira: Campinas, 1795-1850

Dora Isabel Paiva da Costa
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Anais do III Congresso Brasileiro de História Econômica e 4ª Conferência Internacional de História de Empresas [Proceedings of the 3rd Brazilian Congress of Economic History and the 4th International Conference on Business History] from ABPHE - Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores em História Econômica (Brazilian Economic History Society)

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that families have developed different strategies breaking legal constraints about inheritance. The development cycle of the families, the life cycle of its members, the enrichment, and the open frontier were the principals elements that families operated in order to have anticipated the increasing transferences of the part of their wealth. Campinas, province of São Paulo is the geographical context studied from 1795 till 1850, during the growth of the plantations units. The sources are post-mortem inventories, estates records and census (maços de população). The methodologies used are agregated data and life history.

Date: 1999-09-01
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