Some Notes on the Concept of Colonial Tardio in Rio de Janeiro: an essay on the colonial economy

Abstract

This essay deals with the application of the notion of "colonial tardio” to Rio de Janeiro in the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century, a period during which the city was converted into the principal market of the South Atlantic With this objective in mind, the text analyzes the changes that occurred between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries in the form of accumulating colonial wealth. The essay also includes a profile of the economic elite of the city.