AZOREAN OPPOSITION TO THE PORTUGUESE TOBACCO CONTRACT IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY

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Published: Oct 22, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/Millars.2020.49.5
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Tobacco, Monopoly, General Contract, Portugal, Azores

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Maria Margarida Machado
Universidade dos Açores

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The tobacco industry in Portugal was organized as a monopoly due to its high tax potential. This led to the creation of strict rules that kept the Azores out of the production and out of the direct trade of this product. In the short term, these res- trictions led to the appearance of smuggling, and in the long term a movement against the royal monopoly and for the freedom to produce and manufacture tobacco in the Azores, mainly during the second half of the 19th century. This paper aims to study this period of discontent and to understand the strength (or lack) of this opposition.




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Machado, M. M. (2020). AZOREAN OPPOSITION TO THE PORTUGUESE TOBACCO CONTRACT IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY. Millars. Espai I Història, 2(49), 101–118. https://doi.org/10.6035/Millars.2020.49.5
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No. 49 (2020): Millars. Espai i Història. Número 49. Los monopolios ibéricos del tabaco
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Maria Margarida Machado, Universidade dos Açores

Maria Margarida de Mendonça Vaz do Rego Machado doutorou-se em História Moderna, em 2001, na Universidade dos Açores onde é docente no Departamento de História, Filosofia e Artes da  Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas. Investigadora do CHAM-CH  da Universidade Nova de Lisboa e da Universidade dos Açorees, é directora do CHAM-Açores. Coordenadora do Mestrado em História Insular e do Atlântico séculos XV a XVIII,  da mesma Universidade. Tem dedicado o seu estudo à História da economia e sociedade Micaelense com particular enfoque no século XVIII e nas Elites Mercantis, Tabaco e escravos.