De Sacramento a Boca do Monte: a formação patrimonial de famílias de elite na Província de São Pedro (Santa Maria, RS, século XIX)

Abstract

The present work aims, through the intensive use of the post-death inventories and other heterogeneous sources from Santa Maria da Boca do Monte county, between the years from 1858 to 1889, analyze the group of the regional owners / creators elite in this rural scenery of century XIX middles. Based on the theoretical and methodological contribution of the micro-history, we start to see the post-death inventories like a source that made possible us to realize the studied moving society, anchored by numbers. Thus, this dissertation includes in line aportadas contributions by these recent studies and their methods. The this work is to rebuild the family strategies owners/creators, their choices over time, abordando: spatial mobility as famíliar strategy, training, heritage capital accumulation process, access to land ownership in a moment agrarian frontier expansion and the transmission of heritage. We try to investigate the fragments of Francisco José Pinto´s trajectory, owner of the biggest fortune of our lift