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The mercantile forest: timber exploration
and social hierarchies in the captaincy of Ilhéus in the
eighteenth century
Marcelo Henrique Dias
Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz
Analysis of the processes of extraction and trade of hardwood in the territory of the
captaincy of Ilhéus in the Colonial Brazil, especially from the moment the Portuguese Crown
started to operate this business directly (1715). The analysis will fall on the scale, the
administrative mechanisms, the destination of trade and its importance throughout the regional
economy. Are also approached issues of political and economic actors that forestry economy,
whereas the same constituted an regional elite, beneficiaries who were a constant flow of
resources in the Royal Treasury Board intended to ensure the service of the orders from Royal
Arsenals of Lisbon and Dockyard of Salvador.
Keywords: hardwood; captaincy of Ilhéus; forestry; regional elite.