A dinâmica do capital agrário: crédito e investimentos na realidade dos fazendeiros de Vassouras (1850-1888)

Abstract

The goal of this dissertation is to expand the discussion on the issue of credit and the institutionalization of markets while constituents in economic development of the coffee economy in Vale do Paraíba Fluminense in the nineteenth century, through the analysis of inventories, wills and other primary sources available in the library University Severino Shadows, Brooms (RJ), which retains much of the documentation of the coffee-growing elite who lived and worked in the city or was related to her during the nineteenth century. The big problem that is present here is trying to understand how an economy of commodities originating from a basic colonial slave system, which remains in the integration process of the world economy to a capitalist basis, succeeded in transforming financial chain elements, especially particular, to maintain the insertion of capital in an economy where the monetary base and lending institutions were seen apparently insufficient to maintain the export economy, in particular coffee, since the product depended on constant capital investments to keep us off-season periods and the price drops.