Modernização e reestruturações territoriais em Minas Gerais

• Ano de defesa: 2018
• Autor(a) principal: Alfredo Costa
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Minas Gerais; Reestruturação Territorial; Modernização; Urbanização Minas Gerais História; Minas Gerais Condições econômicas História; Evolução social
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/BUOS-B7LJ2L

This thesis seeks to prove empirically that the State of Minas Gerais underwent through important structural and modernizing changes induced by a literate elite throughout its history that denoted pioneering in the process of urban modernization, and economic and territorial restructuring. It is based on the assumptions of the epistemology of the territory, and on the investigative techniques of historical geography, supported by an extensive bibliographical, cartographical and documental research. Furthermore, data on population and municipal production were listed as empirical evidence of the investigated restructuring processes. It is thus demonstrated that the reconfiguration of Minas Gerais territory and its urban network was set by a pool of modernization projects, that were able to transform its predominantly rural economy and its spatially deconcentrated population in the eighteenth century into a strong urban-industrial economy with higher demographic concentration in its medium and large cities at the beginning of the twenty-first century.