Dinâmica da atividade agrícola até meados do século XIX

Abstract

Until the beginning of the 20th century, the history of Brazil was marked by the dynamics of agricultural activity with both large-scale export crops and agriculture aimed at supplying the domestic market, the latter sometimes confused with subsistence farming. Although the international market was the dynamic element, the effects to supply the internal market are essential to explain the history, occupation and population of Brazilian territory. In this article we aim to analyze the dynamics of agriculture in the first centuries of colonization, both exporting activities and those dedicated to the domestic market, and its situation in the mid-nineteenth century period of consolidation of coffee farming, which profoundly altered the national productive structure and the infrastructure economy and in particular the transport system.