Os artífices do poder: mecanismos de ascensão social em Guarapiranga (MG), 1715-1820

Abstract

The presente work to analyze the conjuncture political, social and economic changes in the 18th and early 19th centuries, experienced by individuals who dedicated themselves to trade in Minas Gerais. Through post-mortem inventories, matrimonial proceedings, patente letters of the Overseas Historical Archive and documents of the Tomb Tower Archive, the research was aimed at analyzing some subjects of the parish who established business networks, family aliances and other strategies to socially ascend and acquire power and distinction. To this end, we observe the material wealth they have conquered and the imaterial power as benefits, privileges, commenities, mercies, officies that obtained along their trajectories with the purpose of being inserted into the list of great lords in the region. We observed that these individuals and their families kept in the eight hundred the same mechanisms emploved over the sevem hundred as aliances, obtainig concessions, mercies, privileges and acquiring material wealth be preserved among the wealthiest layer of the population. Although governed by a political system that sought to diferrentiate itself and liberal ideals, the habitants of Minas Gerais in the XIX, perpetuated the same standards of hierarchy, exclusion and dominance as the XVIII.