Debaixo de pedra e cal : as relações socioeconômicas na capitania de Itamaracá (1654-1763)

• Autor(a) principal: OLIVEIRA, Rodrigo Ibson da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRPE
• Texto Completo: http://www.tede2.ufrpe.br:8080/tede2/handle/tede2/6183
• topic: Economia colonial; Produção de cal; Capitania hereditária; Ilha de Itamaracá (PE); CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

The objective of this dissertation work is to discuss the influence of chalk for the social organization of the island of Itamaracá and as its economy was benefited by this product, to understand the history of the island as a nexted system in which geography imposed a logic of its own and which was assimilated by the most diverse social networks in order to make thrive the small Atlantic Island "that had such a short period of economic Apogee, which is also associated with the period of greatest evidence of production and marketing of chalk. as a raw material for construction, this product has a long history, since the first news of its use dating back to classic Greek and Roman period, being used even by the Egyptians. On the African coast and in the Atlantic Islands, the chalk product marketing became important due to the variety of its uses. To understand the process of production and marketing of chalk al, was necessary to resort to geographical understanding studies and archaeological sources, which in turn gave rise to research and helped sew the fabric of information at first unconnected regarding object. The period in which we draw this text is significant to the story of Itamaracá, while Captaincy and while colonial domination. The second half of the 17th century and the first half of the 18TH CENTURY (1654-1763) these are a part of the history of the island in that many conflicts settled to plot the direction of this Captaincy in several aspects, be they political, social and, above all, economic. This was one of the reasons why we chose this timeframe. Thus, we have divided the text, then, in three chapters to build dialogue between the island's history and the production of chalk.