Os contratadores dos caminhos do ouro das Minas Gerais: estratégias mercantis, relações de poder, compadrio e sociabilidade(1718-1750)

Abstract

This Thesis attempts to analyze the socials and economics aspects of the contractors of the entradas between 1718-1750. Analyzing the relationship, friendship, favor and thankfulness terms, deftly made among the sixteen contractors and the Portuguese State, it was possible to identify the economics and politics importance that the contracts acquire in the society mineira, making of the government dom Lourenço de Almeida to work up personal strategy for that of the its continued in the Provedoria of the Capitania, and not in Lisboa, in accordance with solicit of the Conselho Ultramarino. We analyzes still that was the strategies makings towards contractors, they allows the access in the profitable world of the contracts. We check up too the material and symbols profitable derivations of the togetherness between of the men of the business and the Portuguese Crow.