Between profit and distinction: An inquiry on the meaning of "being part of the elite" in 19th century Minas Gerais

Authors

  • Ana Rosa Cloclet da Silva Faculdades de Campinas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1808-8139.v0i7p62-79

Keywords:

State^i2^sforms of governm, Minas Gerais, elites

Abstract

Supported by cartorial data - wills and "post mortem" inventories - this article intends to reconstruct the wealth, productive structures and labour relationships that distinguished proprietors established at Ouro Preto, São João Del Rey and Paracatu, as well as the Distrito Diamantino, from 1792 until 1831. Focusing on the material and social diversity of the Minas Gerais province, during a period characterized by an economical "accomodative evolution", I aim to shed some light on the different conditions and strategies available to those men who intended to obtain profit, without losing their social distinction, and by doing so, were able to act nationelly, or at least locally, shaping, according to their own interests, the Brazilian State.

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Published

2008-05-01

Issue

No. 7 (2008)

Section

Articles

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