THE COLONIAL POT BAG? CONSIDERATIONS ON THE USE OF THE CAMPESINATO CONCEPT IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF BRAZIL COLONY
The word or concept ―peasantry‖ has been usual in the historiography on Colonial Brazil at least in the former two decades, particularly regarding the small scale farmers. This articles aims to discuss how suitable the concept is to define small scale production along the colonial period. Thus, i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
2012-06-01
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| Series: | Clio: Revista de Pesquisa Histórica |
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| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/revistaclio/article/view/24295/19699 |
| Summary: | The word or concept ―peasantry‖ has been usual in the historiography on Colonial Brazil
at least in the former two decades, particularly regarding the small scale farmers. This articles aims
to discuss how suitable the concept is to define small scale production along the colonial period.
Thus, it takes into consideration the chief theoretical benchmarks, specially the sociological ones.
Similarly, we briefly review some of the relevant works from newly historiography and adduce
qualitative data from our own research on Pernambuco‘s tobacco production. |
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| ISSN: | 2525-5649 2525-5649 |