O mercado de bens rurais, extrativos e urbanos do termo de Mariana: interações sociais, econômicas e espaços de produção (1711-1779)

Abstract

The present work investigates the process of implementation and expansion of agricultural activity in Minas Gerais during the period that comprises the peak of the mining economy until the end of it (1711-177), from the market perspective. In this sense, our goal is to analyze the market of goods (rural, extractive and urban) from the Mariana region, seeking at the same time understand the process of conformation and evolution of the agrarian structure through this market observing the transformations occurred in the changing process of the economic base of mining to mercantile agriculture of subsistence. Therefore, we consider that the agrarian activity was able to settle a land market that followed at the same pace the expansion of gold mining in this region. We will build our analysis through the scriptures of purchase and selling of rural, extractive and urban properties, which is our main documentary base. Through analysis of this documentation we will analyze the functioning and dynamics of this market. Especially we observe the processes that moved the agriculture and mining, trying to understand its impact on the regional economy. We also aim to seize and examine how the social agents in this market were related to the changes in their economic dynamics.Therefore, the various facets of intentions and social interactions are aspects dealt with from the point of view of the formation of business societies (trade), in rural and / or mining production, as well in the prices formation in that estate goods market of Mariana.