Agricultural production and extractivism: the Amazonian economy in the first half of the eighteenth century

Camila Loureiro Dias

From the mid17th century, the Portuguese Crown encouraged the production of sugarcane and other plants brought from the East, in a context in which the region was seen as a possible alternative to the imperial economic crisis. But it also stimulated the exploitation of the so-called interior drugs, promoting the development of a network of religious missions in the interior of the territory, regulating the work of free Indians and financing the trade of indigenous prisoners.

We investigate the socio-environmental impact of modern colonialism in the Amazon

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