Technical innovation and intelectual altitudes in the French and Luso-Brazilian 'literature about sugar in the first half of the XVIII century

Authors

  • Rafael de Bivar Marquese USP; FFLCH

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0101-47141997000100004

Keywords:

History of sugar, Antilles, Brazil^i2^sXVIIIth.cent, Technical innovation, Economic mtionality, Labat.Antonil

Abstract

The A. analyses two different mental altitudes towards sugar production techniques in the Antilles and in Brazil in early XVlllth.century, as registerd by two reports wrilten in French by Jean-Baptiste Labat (1722) and in Portuguese by André João Antonil (1711 ). Altention is called to the problem of economic rationality as endorsed by New World slave-owners looking for technical innovations.

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Published

1997-01-01

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Section

Material Culture Studies

How to Cite

MARQUESE, Rafael de Bivar. Technical innovation and intelectual altitudes in the French and Luso-Brazilian ’literature about sugar in the first half of the XVIII century . Anais do Museu Paulista: História e Cultura Material, São Paulo, v. 5, n. 1, p. 131–161, 1997. DOI: 10.1590/S0101-47141997000100004. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.usp.br/anaismp/article/view/5351.. Acesso em: 19 may. 2024.