Piracicaba in the nineteenth century: a landscape in change

Authors

  • Adalmir Leonidio Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2013v20n30p101

Abstract

Search with this article understand the process of training the rural landscape of Piracicaba, town in the interior of São Paulo that has posted since the nineteenth century, by its sugar production. It is based on broad and varied documental source - statistical data, narratives of travel, manuals of agriculture, newspapers and magazines - worked in a regressive method, that is, from the late nineteenth century, when the information is more abundant and has by main hypothesis the dialectical relation between dynamic agrarian and dynamic patterns of landscape. Is part of a broader research, interdisciplinary, the Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz.

Author Biography

Adalmir Leonidio, Universidade de São Paulo

Professor Associado de História do Departamento de Economia e Sociologia da ESALQ\USP.

http://lattes.cnpq.br/5536464998757448

Published

2013-12-19

How to Cite

Leonidio, A. (2013). Piracicaba in the nineteenth century: a landscape in change. Esboços: Histories in Global Contexts, 20(30), 101–122. https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2013v20n30p101