Book ID: CBB721924775

L'opulenza del Brasile coloniale. Storia di un trattato di economia e del gesuita Antonil (2021)

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Giuli, Matteo (Author)


Carocci Editore


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 316 pp.
Language: Italian

Analizzando un trattato di economia di inizio Settecento, intitolato "Cultura e opulencia do Brasil", e tracciando il profilo biografico del suo autore, il gesuita André João Antonil, il volume propone uno studio del Brasile coloniale, affrontando vari argomenti: quello economico, relativo alla produzione di zucchero e tabacco, all’estrazione di oro e argento, all’allevamento bovino e al commercio del cuoio; quello religioso e missionario, legato sia al confronto tra cristiani, ebrei e cristiani-nuovi, sia alla convivenza in ambito rurale tra coloni, indigeni e schiavi africani; e ancora quello più propriamente politico-istituzionale, dovuto all’esistenza di scontri fazionari all’interno della Provincia gesuitica brasiliana, con conseguenze sui rapporti tra i suoi membri, la Curia generalizia di Roma, la Monarchia portoghese e le autorità locali. Tutto ciò permette di delineare il discorso performativo alla base di tale trattato, che rivendica la compenetrazione tra dominazione coloniale e catechesi cristiana per legittimare, entro il quadro di un pragmatico mercantilismo, il ruolo della grande produzione agricola in una delicata fase di passaggio apertasi, in Brasile, con la scoperta dell’oro. [Abstract translated by Google Translate: This is the abstract in English… By analyzing an early eighteenth-century economics treatise entitled "Cultura e opulencia do Brasil" and tracing the biographical profile of its author, the Jesuit André João Antonil, the volume proposes a study of colonial Brazil and addresses various topics: economics (i.e. the production of sugar and tobacco, the extraction of gold and silver, the cattle breeding and the leather trade); religion (linked both to the confrontation between Christians, Jews and new Christians, and to the coexistence in rural areas between settlers, indigenous people and African slaves); and the more strictly political-institutional aspect, due to the existence of factional clashes within the Brazilian Jesuit Province, with consequences on the relations between its members, the General Curia of Rome, the Portuguese Monarchy and local authorities. All this allows us to outline the performative discourse at the base of this treatise, which claims the interpenetration between colonial domination and Christian catechesis to legitimize - within the framework of a pragmatic mercantilism - the role of large agricultural production in a delicate phase of transition that has opened, in Brazil, with the discovery of gold.]

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Authors & Contributors
Tim Riding
Giuliano Pinto
Pluymers, Keith
Sluyter, Andrew
Cagle, Hubert Glenn, III
Wellenreuther, Hermann
Concepts
Colonialism
Portugal, colonies
Environmental history
Agriculture
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Animal husbandry
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
16th century
19th century
Early modern
15th century
Places
Brazil
Europe
Great Britain
Portugal
India
Atlantic world
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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