Angelo Alves Carrara

Historiografia econômica do dízimo agrário na Ibero-América: os casos do Brasil e Nova Espanha, século XVIII

O proposito deste artigo e duplo. De um lado, apresentar uma visao global sobre a evolucao historiografica do dizimo na Nova Espanha e no Brasil, incidindo especialmente nos aspectos economicos. Por outro lado, apontar em que medida os dados decimais do seculo XVIII em ambos os espacos permitem responder a questoes relativas ao fenomeno do crescimento da producao agricola em uma e outra regiao.

Amoedação e oferta monetária em Minas Gerais: as Casas de Fundição e Moeda de Vila Rica

RESUMO As Casas de Fundicao e Moeda de Vila Rica, que funcionaram entre 1724 e 1735, cunharam mais moeda do que as Casas da Moeda de Lisboa e do Rio de Janeiro juntas. Por si so, estes dados permitem levantar questoes sobre a oferta monetaria de um lado e outro do Atlântico. Neste artigo, de um lado, sao apresentadas a contabilidade e as rotinas de amoedacao das Casas de Vila Rica e, de outro, e analisado o volume de remessas liquidas feitas pelas Casas da Moeda e Fundicao de Vila Rica, Rio de Janeiro e Bahia para a metropole na primeira metade do seculo XVIII. Por fim, discute a monetizacao da economia brasileira no periodo e sinaliza para a necessidade de uma revisao urgente da perspectiva adotada largamente no que respeita a circulacao monetaria na colonia.

GEOPROCESSAMENTO APLICADO À HISTÓRIA AGRÁRIA: O VÍNCULO DA JAGUARA

In spite of the growth of historical GIS in the world since the 1990s, geotechnologies are still relatively unknown among historians in Brazil and very limited the number of those who practice it. This article aims at putting forward an example of the use of geoprocessing in the creation of geographic information systems – GIS in support of agrarian history research. Specifically, it analyses, through the georeferenced demarcation, a set of large rural properties of Minas Gerais in the eighteenth century known under the name of “vínculo da Jaguara”, based on documentary and cartographic sources. More than an analysis of a set of specific rural properties, we hope that the methodology presented in this study can be explored in much more comprehensive research.

Eficácia tributária dos sistemas de cobrança dos quintos reais: A segunda capitação em Minas Gerais, 1736-1751

The collection of the fifths tax levied on the gold produced in colonial Brazil was carried out by means of at least five different systems of tax collection. This reformism in tax matters can be attributed to the search for greater tax efficiency in each collection system, but also, without a doubt, to the novelty of mining as an economic activity, as well as the fact that mining-related duties were collected not by the traditional farming tax system, but by royal officials. This article analyzes the effectiveness of the collection of the fifths tax through one of these systems, the head tax, which was in place between the second half of 1735 and the first half of 1751. Based on the comparison between the amounts raised and the minimum quota established by the Portuguese crown, on the one hand, and between the income of the fifths tax during the periods 1735-1751 and 1751-1766, on the other hand, it is shown that the effectiveness of the head tax is incontestable. These results point to the need to further study the reasons that may have led the Crown to change a tax collection system that was proven to be efficient for another, which was not capable of meeting the established quota.