This thesis aims at showcasing the movement of African cultural meaning from Africa to Europe by Europeans in their involvement in the African slave trade as well as the colonization of Africa, which was the imprisonment of the African cultural expression as well as a limitation of its development and further production. The thesis also addresses one of the reason for the global circulation of the European culture, which is the search and achievement of absolute power and control over the minds of its conquests in order to become a dominant culture. Note, however that the act of becoming a dominant culture stem from the European cultural persuasion of the dominance of its culture by its self and not a reflection of epistemological and ontological superiority. Note also that in claiming to be a dominant culture, the European culture is in reality only in control of its conquests, which are cultures whose nature is to its full knowledge, and whose meaning it distributes upon will and purpose. Therefore, the movement of African cultural values, norms and beliefs to Europe and the Euro‐Atlantic world, implies that the ideas from which the European fashion system´s inspiration is founded, are in essence not only European derived. This conclusion is based on a critical analysis of the nature of the European culture and its authentic self, a self that produces European culture. / Program: Textilt management, fashion management

Esta Dissertação analisa a elaboração e a repercussão da Convenção de 1817, assinada pelo governo inglês e português. Adicionando artigos ao Tratado de 1815, que proibiu o tráfico de escravos ao norte do Equador, o ajuste bilateral de 1817 previa o direito de visita recíproco da marinha de guerra de ambas as nações e a formação de tribunais mistos (comissões) para julgar os traficantes que ignorassem a determinação do Tratado de 1815. A partir da Convenção, este trabalho pretende reavaliar o papel dos embaixadores lusitanos diante do corpo diplomático britânico; compreender as decisões elaboradas por D. João em relação ao tráfico de escravos; e indicar algumas das linhas do debate político em torno do futuro da Monarquia portuguesa no final da década de 1810. / This study analyzes the arranging and the impact of the Convention of 1817, signed by the English and Portuguese governments. Adding articles to the Treaty of 1815, which forbade the slave trade north of the Equator, the bilateral arrangement of 1817 established the reciprocal Right of Search of warships and Mixed Courts (Commissions) in order to judge Slavers who had ignored the commitment of Treaty of 1815. From the time of the Convention, this work intends to reevaluate the deal between Portuguese ambassadors and British diplomacy; to better understand the decisions decreed by D. João in respects to the slave trade; and to point out some of the aspects of political debates concerning the future of the Portuguese Monarchy, during the sojourn of the Real Court in Rio de Janeiro at the end of the decade of 1810.

Entre os anos de 1884 e 1888, o militar português Henrique Augusto Dias de Carvalho realizou uma grande expedição que partiu de Luanda e atingiu a mussumba (capital) da Lunda, governada pelo muatiânvua. Levava consigo vários objetivos, em parte determinados pelos interesses dos poderes governamentais de Lisboa, em parte por suas aspirações de saber científico. A esta expedição agregaram-se diferentes grupos de africanos, trabalhadores atraídos ou arregimentados que se revelaram responsáveis, em grande parte, pelo andamento da viagem. Tendo como referência a narrativa desta expedição, produzida por Henrique de Carvalho, a presente pesquisa é uma tentativa de reconstituir a história de vida desses homens e mulheres, dimensionando suas experiências a partir do pressuposto de que não foram marginais à organização e êxito do empreendimento português. Inserida a problemática no contexto mais amplo de processos históricos relacionados ao advento da política imperialista na segunda metade do século XIX, a atuação destes trabalhadores africanos foi analisada nos termos em que se rearticularam as formas de exploração do trabalho, acarretadas pelas abolições do tráfico de escravizados e da própria escravidão em regiões africanas. Importou-nos verificar não só as formas de participação de carregadores, guias e intérpretes na expedição de Henrique Carvalho, como também as respostas dadas por parte dos diferentes grupos africanos às formas de trabalho às quais se encontravam submetidos. Sob tal perspectiva, a investigação sobre a vivência destes trabalhadores, tal como registrada na obra do militar português, foi uma proposta de perscrutar resistências por meio do entendimento das suas noções de direitos e de deveres, formas de organização de tarefas, práticas cotidianas, estratégias no trato com as autoridades africanas e com o comando da expedição. / Between the years 1884 and 1888, the Portuguese military Henrique Augusto Dias de Carvalho made a great expedition from Luanda and reached mussumba (capital) of Lunda, governed by Muatianvua. He took with him several objectives, determined in part by the interests of the governmental powers of Lisbon, in part because their aspirations for scientific knowledge. In this expedition were added to different groups of Africans, lured or recruited workers who have proved responsible in large part by the progress of the trip. With reference to the narrative of this expedition, produced by Henrique de Carvalho, the present research is an attempt to reconstruct the life story of these men and women, measuring their experiences from the assumption that there were not marginal to the organization and success of the enterprise Portuguese. Set on the issue in the broader context of historical processes related to the advent of the imperialist policy in the second half of the nineteenth century, the role of African workers was analyzed in terms of what is rearticulate forms of exploitation of labor, brought about by the abolition of the slave trade and of slavery itself in African regions. Matters to us verify not only the forms of participation of porters, guides and interpreters in the expedition of Henrique de Carvalho, as well as the answers given by the various African groups the types of work for which they were submitted. From this perspective, the research about the experience of these workers, as recorded in the work of the Portuguese military, was a proposal for analyzing resistance through understanding of their notions of rights and duties, organizational tasks, daily practices, strategies in dealing with the African authorities and the command of the expedition.

This thesis consists of four independent chapters, in which well-known economic theories are employed to investigate, and better understand, data and facts from the real world. Although in fairly distant topics, each paper is an example of how economics, and more precisely microeconomics, offers a rigorous and effective framework to reason about what happens around us. In this sense, my dissertation fully represents what I have learnt in these five years. The first paper addresses the experimental behavior of subjects that interact with each other, non-cooperatively, in a laboratory setup. The experimental evidence is found to be at odds with the predictions of classical game-theory, and I explore whether a model of bounded rationality can instead succeed in explaining the data. The second paper looks at another type of data, historical rather than experimental. Together with Björn Wallace, we raise doubts, methodological and interpretational, regarding the validity of a recent finding that documents a sizeable effect of Africa's past slave trades on current economic performance. The last two papers investigate the phenomenon of limited records, understood as the limited availability of past public data regarding a transacting partner. The former is a survey, written jointly with Giancarlo Spagnolo, wherein we discuss the literatures that have independently studied whether limited records may actually prompt beneficial reputation effects. We argue that what is known about this type of informational arrangement is little and scattered, and that this is problematic given the large number of real-life situations featuring limited records. These conclusions prepare the ground for the last paper of this dissertation, which presents a model of limited credit records. The model aims at providing a framework for evaluating the current privacy provisions in the credit market which mandate the removal of information about borrowers' past performance from public registers after a finite number of years. / Diss. Stockholm : Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, 2011

La traite des esclaves à Madagascar a provoqué de changements importants tout au long du XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, aussi bien sur le plan politique, qu’économique et social. Les Néerlandais et les Français, présents à la colonie du Cap et aux Mascareignes étaient des acteurs de taille dans ces interactions commerciales complexes et symboliques. Des transformations sont perceptibles dès les premiers contacts, non seulement au sein des grands royaumes sakalava et betsimisaraka mais également jusqu’aux régions les plus recluses. Pourtant, les relations commerciales se complexifient dans la longue durée. En effet, une certaine continuité est identifiable sur toute la période étudiée. Le commerce maritime qui jouait un rôle primordial dans ces développements, concernait riz, bétail et captifs échangés contre piastres, armes à feu et toiles. Il a bouleversé la balance des pouvoirs et l’économie de la Grande Île. Le volume de la traite, calculé à partir de centaines d’expéditions néerlandaise et française, était déjà très substantiel avant le milieu du XVIIIe siècle. / The slave trade on Madagascar provoked important changes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, both politically, economically and socially. The Dutch and the French, present on Cape Colony and the Mascarene Islands, were important players in these commercial, but complex and symbolic, interactions. The transformations are detectable from the first contact onwards, not only in the great kingdoms of Sakalava and Betsimisaraka but also in the most secluded areas. However, commercial relations complexified in the longue durée. Indeed, a certain continuity is identifiable during this entire period. The maritime commerce, which played a primary role in these developments, concerned rice, cattle and slaves bartered for Spanish dollars, firearms and textiles. The slave trade disturbed the balance of powers and the economy of the Big Island. The volume of the trade, calculated from hundreds expeditions done by the Dutch and the French, was already very substantial before the middle of the eighteenth century.

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-04-05T11:19:12Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 2911600 bytes, checksum: 043b5cd6d0e06f1a37d1e46eee745077 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-05T11:19:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 2911600 bytes, checksum: 043b5cd6d0e06f1a37d1e46eee745077 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The main subject of this work is the African population of slaves and free people who lived in Paraíba in the first half of the 19th century. For many decades, historiography has denied, omitted or minimized the participation of African people in the historical process. However, the presence of men and women who came from Africa was constant in this province. Our main goal is to understand how the African population was introduced in Paraíba (a peripheral region in the Atlantic trade of slaves) and how they lived there. In order to achieve it, we have outlined a historiographical route to identify the gaps in a given historical culture. By making usage of the theoretical and methodological assumptions of Marxist Social History, we have made a critique of this portion of historiography that denied the participation of black populations and African populations in particular in the history of the province. Next, by using a variety of sources such as reports and official mail correspondence of governors and presidents of Paraíba, inventories and wills, requests of release, baptism records, manumission and many others, we have managed to comprehend further on the matters issued, approaching social and economic aspects of the region, indicating which were the main routes of importation and what was the everyday-life of African people. We have come to realise that Paraíba was inserted in the Atlantic trade of slaves indirectly which had a complementary character to this slave-holding society. Therefore the quantity of slaves who came from Africa was inferior to the ones sent to other locations such as Recife, Salvador and Rio de Janeiro. This factor marked certain specificities in the life of these African people. However the fundamental practise of slavery remained: violence. / Este trabalho tem como objeto a população africana escravizada e liberta que viveu na Paraíba na primeira metade do século XIX. Por muitas décadas, a historiografia negou, omitiu ou minimizou a participação dos africanos no processo histórico. Entretanto, a presença de homens e mulheres que vieram da África era constante nessa capitania/província. Nosso objetivo é compreender como os africanos foram introduzidos na Paraíba (uma região periférica no tráfico atlântico de escravos) e como essa população viveu na região. Para isso, fizemos um percurso historiográfico para identificar as lacunas existentes em uma dada cultura histórica do local estudado. Utilizando-nos dos pressupostos teóricos e metodológicos da História Social de influência marxista, fizemos a crítica a essa parte da historiografia que negava à população negra, em especial a africana, a participação na história da capitania/província pesquisada. Em seguida, a partir de diversas fontes como relatórios e correspondências de governadores e presidentes da Paraíba, inventários e testamentos, requerimentos de soltura, registros de batismo, cartas de alforria, dentre outras, nos aprofundamos nas questões propostas, abordando aspectos econômicos e sociais da região, indicando quais eram as principais rotas de importação e como se dava o cotidiano dos africanos. Percebemos que a Paraíba se inseria no mercado atlântico de escravizados de maneira indireta e o tráfico assumia um caráter complementar nessa sociedade escravista. Por conseguinte, a quantidade de escravizados vindos da África era inferior a outras capitanias/províncias centrais como Recife, Salvador e Rio de Janeiro. Esse fator marcou determinadas especificidades na vida desses africanos. Contudo, a prática fundamental da escravidão continuou presente: a violência.

Orientador: Jefferson Cano / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T02:40:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Negrao_AlessandraPellegrino_M.pdf: 2267972 bytes, checksum: 53953daa29a40415058ddf4207b07283 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar de que forma o jornal baiano Correio Mercantil, entre os anos de 1836 e 1849, veiculou artigos acerca das revoltas livres e escravas, do tráfico de africanos para o Brasil e da própria escravidão, buscando compreender os interesses políticos que determinaram estas publicações. Para tanto, interessa compreender a influência das rebeliões no período, e de quais maneiras elas foram veiculadas, assim como a relação que foi estabelecida entre as revoltas livres e escravas e a instrumentalização do medo das elites políticas da província em relação à grande quantidade de africanos e da população de cor na Bahia. Importa, também, entender como o Correio compreendia a formação da nação brasileira no contexto pós-independência, especialmente no que tange aos indivíduos que deveriam construir e fazer parte da identidade do Brasil, à condição de cidadania e à instituição escravista. Por fim, é imprescindível analisar de que forma o periódico abordou os debates e os processos decorrentes da lei de 1831, que proibiu o tráfico de africanos para o Brasil, e quais interesses os seus redatores tinham em veicular certos debates e notícias, silenciando outros. Estes eixos de análise foram desenvolvidos no sentido de buscar descortinar as estratégias, tanto de argumentação, quanto de produção, utilizadas pelo Correio Mercantil com a finalidade de defender a manutenção da ordem, da lei, da propriedade e das relações de poder escravistas / Abstract: This work aims to analyze how the Bahia's newspaper Correio Mercantil, between the years of 1836 and 1849, ran articles about the free and slave revolts, the slave trade of Africans to Brazil and of slavery itself, trying to understand the political interests that determined these publications. To this end, we are interested to understand the influence of the rebellions in the period, and the ways in which they were conveyed, as well as the relationship that was established between free and slave revolts and the use of the fear of political elites of the province in relation to the large number of Africans and the colored population in Bahia. It is also important to understand how Correio understood the formation of Brazil in the post-independence, especially in regard to individuals who should build and be part of the identity of Brazil, the condition of citizenship and the institution of slavery. Finally, it is essential to examine how the newspaper approached the debates and proceedings arising from the 1831 law, which prohibited the slave trade to Brazil, and which interests their writers had in certain debates and vehicle news, silencing others. These lines of analysis have been developed in order to unveil the strategies of both arguments and production, used by Correio Mercantil in order to defend the maintenance of order, law, property and power relations of slavery / Mestrado / Historia Social / Mestre em História

Submitted by Maria Dulce (mdulce@ndc.uff.br) on 2013-12-13T18:47:09Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Braga, Nilza-Disser-2013.pdf: 18016395 bytes, checksum: 6d01df9ddbf40cb8ec4e3c9ab3b057a2 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-12-13T18:47:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Braga, Nilza-Disser-2013.pdf: 18016395 bytes, checksum: 6d01df9ddbf40cb8ec4e3c9ab3b057a2 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / A presente dissertação discute a trajetória mercantil e honorífica de Elias Antonio Lopes, um dos maiores negociantes que atuou na praça mercantil do Rio de Janeiro em fins do século XVIII e nos primeiros quinze anos do século XIX. Ele emigrou da cidade do Porto para o Rio de Janeiro em aproximadamente 1770, para tentar a sorte nos ofícios mercantis. Ele concentrou em suas mãos uma grande fortuna, advinda de diferentes ramos mercantis, como o tráfico negreiro, arrecadação de contratos reais, comércio interno e externo. O negociante angariou variadas mercês, fundamentais em sua mobilidade social ascendente, em fins do século XVIII e principalmente após a vinda da Corte joanina em 1808. Isso aconteceu, após o negociante ter doado sua chácara em São Cristóvão e futura Quinta da Boa Vista para servir de residência da família real portuguesa. Neste sentido, discutiremos que o ideal aristocrático do Antigo Regime português esteve presente no início do século XIX quando os negociantes procuraram status social ao serem agraciados com mercês em retribuição aos serviços prestados a Dom João. Elias Antonio Lopes faleceu no ano de 1815 deixando uma grande herança, disputada entre seus herdeiros e a Coroa portuguesa pelo fato de ele não ter deixado testamento. Portanto, este estudo perpassa, desde a emigração de Lopes para o Rio de Janeiro, até sua trajetória mercantil e honorífica, encerrando-se com seu falecimento e disputa por sua herança. / In this dissertation, a detailed discussion of the mercantile and honorific route of Elias Antonio Lopes is explored. Elias was the greatest dealer, who played a significant role in the Rio de Janeiro imperial market by the ends of XVIII century and the first years of XIX century. He emigrated from the Porto city, Portugal, to the Rio de Janeiro, probably in the year of 1770 in order to get a chance in the market place of Rio de Janeiro. He got a great fortune from different facets of the mercantile area such as slave trade, the getting of royal contracts, as well as getting from internal and foreign markets. As a trader, he could assemble a great deal of benefices (mercês), which were fundamental in order to get social nobility in the XVIII, when the Portuguese royals arrived in 1808. All these took place after the donating of his own farmland in São Cristóvão, neighbourhood, the future Portuguese royal house. In this sense, it is discussed here that the aristocratic ideal in that time was commonplace in the beginnings of the XIX century, when the traders used to urge in getting social status by acquisition of titles through services provided to Dom João. Elias Antonio Lopes passed away in the year of the 1815 leaving a great inheritance, eagerly rivaled by his heirs and the Portuguese Crown, as he did not leave any testament. Therefore, this study is a large passing through of his route since his emigration to Rio de Janeiro, his honorific dealings in the mercantile marketing, ending up with his suddenly death and the eagerly rivalry of his properties.

The Ais were a Native American group who lived along the Atlantic shoreline of Florida south of Cape Canaveral. This coastal population’s position adjacent to a major shipping route afforded them numerous encounters with the Atlantic world that linked Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas. Through their exploitation of the goods and peoples from the European shipwrecks thrown ashore, coupled with their careful manipulation of other Atlantic contacts, the Ais polity established an influential domain in central east Florida during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The pre-contact peoples of Florida’s east coast, including the ancestors of the Ais, practiced a maritime adaptation concentrated on the exploitation of their bountiful riverine, estuarine, and marine environments. The Ais then modified their maritime skills to cope with the opportunities and challenges that accompanied European contact. Using their existing aquatic abilities, they ably salvaged goods and castaways from the Spanish, French, English, and Dutch vessels dashed on the rocks and reefs of Florida’s coast. The Ais’ strategic redistribution of these materials and peoples to other Florida Native Americans, the Spaniards of St. Augustine, and other passing Europeans gained them greater influence. This process, which I call indigenous wrecking, enabled the Ais to expand their domain on the peninsula. Coastal Florida Native Americans’ maritime abilities also attracted the attention of Europeans. In the late seventeenth century, English buccaneers and salvagers raided Florida’s east coast to capture indigenous divers, whom they sent to work the wreck of a sunken Spanish treasure ship located in the Bahamas. The English subsequently sold the surviving Native American captives to other Caribbean slave markets. Despite population losses to such raids, the Ais and other peoples of the east coast thrived on Atlantic exchange and used their existing maritime adaptation to resist colonial intrusions until the start of the eighteenth century. This dissertation thus offers a narrative about Native Americans and the Atlantic that is unlike most Southeastern Indian stories. The Ais used their maritime adaptation and the process of indigenous wrecking to engage and exploit the arriving Atlantic world. In the contact era, the Ais truly became Atlantic Ais.

Orientador: Ligia Maria Osorio Silva / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T17:23:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rossini_GabrielAlmeidaAntunes_D.pdf: 4082471 bytes, checksum: 7f7167898b1f6e3a13e8e27040af4359 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa aborda a dinâmica do tráfico interno de escravos na franja da economia cafeeira paulista, entre 1861-1887. Este estudo tem como lócus privilegiado alguns importantes centros cafeicultores do Oeste Paulista pertencentes à Zona da Baixa Paulista (Rio Claro, Araras e Araraquara). Os resultados apresentados nesta pesquisa foram decorrentes da análise de 814 escrituras de compra e venda de escravos que registraram a comercialização de 1.756 indivíduos das mais diferentes idades, origens e ambos os sexos. Este estudo é estruturado em quatro partes. Além da introdução, na segunda parte, discutimos aspectos relativos aos recortes espacial, temporal e ao núcleo documental utilizado e também abordamos elementos da expansão cafeeira e do comércio interno de escravos. Na terceira, expomos os resultados das diversas apreciações econômicas e demográficas relativas aos indivíduos que sofreram o fado das diferentes modalidades do tráfico interno de cativos. Por fim, expomos as nossas conclusões / Abstract: This research deals with the dynamics of internal slave trade during the coffee boom era in São Paulo, between 1861 and 1887. The localities where we focus this research are the cities of Rio Claro, Araras and Araraquara, in the western zone of the São Paulo, also known as "Baixa Paulista", where important coffee plantations were developed. The research is based on the analysis of 814 deeds of purchase and sale of slaves, with these transactions involving 1.756 persons, of different ages, origins and sex. The study is structured in four parts, an introduction, a section focused on describing our local samples, including aspects related to growth of coffee production and associated growth of the trade of slaves. In the third section, we present the results of our economic and demographic analysis developed upon the territorial, economic and demographic sample. This section is followed by a conclusion / Doutorado / Historia Economica / Doutor em Desenvolvimento Economico