ABSTRACT´S DE ARTIGOS A SEREM PUBLICADOS PELO PESQUISADOR RODRIGO A. TOLEDO
The coffee cycle and the Urbanization Process at the São Paulo State Summary As one can observe in this article, at São Paulo State, the infrastructure of the railroads and the urbanization that comes as consequence are important factors in the formulation of a urban Brazilian thought. The reading of paulista space was created with interfaces on the gradual process of abolition of slavery, on the formulation of the Lei de Terras (The Law of the Lands) and at the economy influenced by the coffee. The gradual slavery abolition generated exceeding capital at the state, which was invested on the structure of transportation and at the opening of new coffee farms. The Lei das Terras was a tool/ legal trick to, according to Martins (1979), somehow make the slavery last even after its abolition. In other words, the Lei das Terras did not alter the land property, as they still belonged to farmers and businessmen. The coffee economy generated what is called a coffee complex that start