Sao Paulo and the meanings of colonization

Abstract

Under the perspective of the History of Economy, this article contextualizes the historiography of the proposal of the dossier History of colonization in the territory of Sao Paulo: dynamics and transformations (16th and 20th centuries) and presents the other 13 articles included. It is a propositional text that summarizes, within the context of expansion and consolidation of capitalism, the specific links among commercial trade, labour, organization of the productive lands and organization of the movements of the population as a political and economic practice in the territory of Sao Paulo. The main objective is to make a historiographical assessment of the meanings of colonization that defined the integration and expansion of the bonds between Sao Paulo, the world market and the development of the inner market, offering certain diversity of the agricultural production, so often suppressed by large exportation crops.