The profile of businessmen in the interior of São Paulo

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to work the size of the immigrant as a businessman and / or entrepreneur, or economic agent in the interior. Therefore, its main theoretical contribution historical analysis built by Florestan Fernandes (2010) on the development of the bourgeois revolution in Brazil, time which coincides with the deployment, peak and decline of coffee plantations in the west of São Paulo (second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century). Other authors such as José de Souza Martins (1973), Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1969, 1972), Sallum Junior (1982), Agnaldo de Souza Barbosa (2006), John Manoel Cardoso de Mello (1982) and Osvaldo Truzzi (2000) will be used to enrich the debate on the issue