Historiografia econômica do dízimo agrário na Ibero-América: os casos do Brasil e Nova Espanha, século XVIII

Abstract

This article aims at presenting an overview of the historiographical evolution concerning the tithes in New Spain and Brazil, focusing especially on the economic features. On the one hand, it intends to point out in what measure the eighteenth century tithal records allow us to answer, in both regions, some issues relating to the economic growth of the agricultural production in one and another space.