Entre administradores, juntas e vice-reis: uma história administrativa da Real Fazenda de Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro (1760-1804)

Abstract

This dissertation he as object of analysis the landed property known as Royal Farm of Santa Cruz in the period between 1760 to 1804. This old Jesuit farm was kidnapped by the Portuguese Crown in the year 1759 by virtue of the order that determined the expulsion of these religious from the territories lusitans, with the consequent incorporation of their property to the Portuguese Royal Treasury. We will try to discuss the period in which the farm was administrated by an official designated by the Portuguese bureaucracy, and to highlight the conflicts and political articulations that involved every administrative process of the farm. Our objective is to understand the administrative trajectory of the Royal Farm of Santa Cruz inserted in the dynamics of government established in the Portuguese empire from the second half of the XVIII century, and thus seek to clarify political and administrative aspects of the “so-speak and little clarified, Farm of Santa Cruz”.