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This work can be read as an exercise in historical and sociological reflection that gravitates around the specific time and space of the establishment of a colony of European migrants in the Itajaí Valley, in Santa Catarina, in southern Brazil. It takes a closer look at the period between the mid-19th and early 20th centuries, from the founding of the Blumenau colony in the Imperial period to its status as a city in the First Republic. The genetic link with maritime transport networks favoured the creation of a commercial class based on control over the means of production and distribution of the region's resources. This direct link with the German economy can be defined as a singularising element in the political formation of the Itajaí Valley region in relation to the rest of the country: the city of Blumenau is a specific case in which the institutional bases of the economy were built on the basis of a double dependent articulation between the German commercial lobby and the development of the market economy in Brazil.
About the author
Master's degree from the Postgraduate Programme in Political Sociology at the Federal University of Santa Catarina - UFSC (2013). BA in Psychology from the Regional University of Blumenau Foundation (2010).
