Dialectics of private land ownership in Brazil in the nineteenth century

• Autor(a) principal: Piccinato Junior, Dirceu
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Labor & Engenho (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/labore/article/view/8649204
• topic: Private land ownership. Urban land. Legislation.; Propriedade fundiária privada. Terra urbana. Legislações.

The objective of this investigation is to analyze the private land property, particularly the urban one, through the political conjunctures that were being established during the end of the Colonial period, in the Imperial period and in the course of the First Republic. Thus, we can conjecture that the dialectic of private property in Brazil during the nineteenth century assumes processes of occupation and territorial appropriation as integral parts of the system of construction and consolidation of the Brazilian State and the formation of the social classes of the country. The role of private (or public) initiative in land tenure, as well as the way in which government policies have been adapting the "land issue" to the pressure exerted by the predominant layers in rural and urban environments, Society in de@ining the positions taken by the State regarding this problem. As a parameter of study for the present article we take as re