Travessia: o processo de modernização da Minas Gerais oitocentista pelos dados dos Censos do início da década de 1860

Abstract

This work aims, mainly, to assess the ruptures and also the continuities in the trajectories of the economy and society in the province of Minas Gerais throughout the 19th century. To this end, it is proposed to carry out a thorough analysis of the data to be extracted from the various population and economic surveys of the early 1860s. However, in order not to simply describe this isolated point in time, the research extended its analysis to carry out comparisons between the periods 1830 to 1860 and 1860 to 1870, with the addition of empirical evidence contained in the regional censuses of the 1830s and the national census of 1872.