Do Parahybuna à Zona da Mata: terra e trabalho no processo de incorporação produtiva do café mineiro (1830/1870)

Abstract

The main theme of this research talks about the process of Minas Gerais’ coffee productive incorporation into the world market in the nineteenth century. It contemplates the rising of coffee culture in the geographic region called Vale do Parahybuna, that was transformed into the historically constituted region of Zona da Mata, as soon as the rubiaceae grew there. Still, it aims to discuss the mismatches that characterized the coffee culture in the region, mainly considering the differences between other coffee-growing areas, as its temporal cycle and its ability of diversifying the local economy in the period of the capitalist transition. The documental basis for this research was the inventories post-mortem, located at Arquivo Histórico da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (AHUFJF), beyond the Reports of the Provincial Presidents of Minas Gerais, demographic sources – Nominal Lists of 1831 and Census of 1872, and reports of travelers who passed through Caminho Novo during the first half of the century.