Graduate Student, FFLCH - Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas
Ph. D. Student in Economic History
Thesis Title: Enlightened Policy and Colonial Fiscality in the Captaincy of São Paulo, 1765-1808
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Miriam Dolhnikoff
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My thesis research focus on the formation and development of the captaincy's power in Portuguese America in the second half of 18th century from the perspective of the fiscal configurations between governors, tax-farmers, and municipal powers in the peripheral captaincy of São Paulo.
Besides the question of the regional government creation, it also could helps to understand the formation of the colonial elite in the captaincy who tried to control, and sometimes controlled, the tax-farms and the town councils.
My approach is closer to historical fiscal sociology than strict economic history, in spite of my bachelor in economics. I like institutional views (the old ones, not D. North and Co.) and State building historians.
I'm currently interested in some comparative approaches of similar problems regarding fiscality and regional powers in the 18th century, specially Spanish America (mainly New Spain) and even the European monarchies (France and the Italian kingdoms). I hope to share doubts and ideas with other researchers.
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