Ocupação da região da Caldeira Vulcânica de Poços de Caldas - MG (Séc. XVIII-XX) / Occupation of the region of the Caldera Volcanic Pocos de Caldas - MG (18th - 20th century)

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

The objective of this research was to analyze the occupation process of the Poços de Caldas volcanic crate from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Results obtained show that this occupation process was related to the population emigration toward the south of the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais during the last quarter of the eighteenth century, immediately after the mining economy crisis. People from the mining areas migrated to the volcanic crate in the south of Minas Gerais looking for pasture and grazing areas. The growth of the market economy in Rio de Janeiro, soon followed by São Paulo, was another reason that stimulated the demographic flow to the area between the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century. The objective was to further understand how the studied area was contextualized in the demographic and economic changes reported by Caio Prado Júnior, in his book The Colonial Background of Modern Brazil. Furthermore, by the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century, the coffee plantations and the Mogiana railroad had an important economic and demographic impact on the area outside the volcanic crate, in the surroundings of Andradas MG and São João da Boa Vista SP.

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demografia sul de minas demography ocupação property south of minas gerais propriedade história econômica occupation economic history

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