Constituição, estrutura e atuação dos poderes locais na comarca de Vila Rica (1711-1750) / Formation, structure and performance of local authorities in Vila Rica county (1711-1750)

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2009

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This work has as its most ranging objective the analysis and understanding of the determining factors for the constitution, structure and acting of the local governors in the first half of eighteen century in Vila Rica county, with the main foccus directed to their town councils. Thus, within a long duration perspective it has been searched to establish the origins of the local powers constitution in the Portuguese metropolis and their transposing to the other constituent parts of the Portuguese Colonial Empire. In the brasililan colony the Town Councils have been the Institution with a public character that had witnessed the seat of their local élite, being that differently from the councils located on the brasilian coast the town councils constituted in the brasilic interior presented the constitution of a distinctive élite, mainly directed to the interests and contradictions of interests that the mining economy created on times of its advent in Brasil at the end of XVII century. Finally, from the acting of the local powers and caracteristic social segmentation of the mines region it has been discussed if that society, despite the slavery, were going through a transitional process from an society of orders to a class society .

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economy minerals elites locais estrutura social local elites câmaras municipais brasil-colônia social structure brazil-colony town councils economia mineradora

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