Rafael Chambouleyron

'Formidável contágio': epidemias, trabalho e recrutamento na Amazônia colonial (1660-1750)

The text analyzes the extent to which smallpox and measles epidemics provoked transformations in the ways in which workforces were acquired and used in colonial Amazonia from the mid-seventeenth to mid-eighteenth century, with an increase in slave raids on the indigenous population and the attempt to organize a trade route in African slaves to the region. It also explores how indigenous mortality rates at the end of the seventeenth century led to a concern with the regions defence and prompted the recruitment of soldiers from the Madeira islands.

Plata, paño, cacao y clavo: "dinero de la tierra" en la Amazonía portuguesa (c. 1640-1750)

El objetivo de este articulo es discutir como la economia y la sociedad de la Amazonia portuguesa colonial (de mediados del siglo XVII a mediados del siglo XVIII) se organizaron a partir de la ausencia de moneda metalica; por otro lado, se analizan las razones que llevaron a la Corona portuguesa a no autorizar la circulacion de monedas metalicas y las implicaciones que tuvo esa politica en la region