The crystallization of sugar and science in the second half of the 19th century
the Mill of Pirabeiraba farm and the agriculture rationalization
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36661/2238-9717.2021n37.11880Keywords:
Sugar landscape, Science, Mill of Pirabeiraba FarmAbstract
This article intends to analyze the agricultural landscape and its transformations in the XIX century in the north region of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Taking into account the concept of human being as an inhabitant of the landscape, from the geographer Jean Marc-Besse (2013), we have tried to understand how the changes in the scientific field in the XIX century justified the transformation of the perception of some groups from Joinville (SC, Brazil) about the work and the rural production linked to the mill of Pirabeiraba Farm, having civilizatory purposes. The primary sources analyzed have included the reports of the Minister of Agriculture, of the Santa Catarina Province presidents, of the Pirabeiraba Farm, besides the journal Gazeta de Joinville. The methodology used is based on the studies of the historian Maria Yedda Linhares (1997), from the rural history field, that endorses a perspective to the past that involves the interactions between environment, population and productive techniques.