Do lugar ao território: uma análise da formação histórica dos vales do Rio Piranga e Xopotó (Minas Gerais, 1694-1800)

Abstract

The rapprochement of several areas of humanities to a spatial orientation in the formulationof its objects and research problems is on the front of most recent academic production. From the analysis of maps, gold discoveries chronicles and expansion of the church chapel ́s influence in a primary region of colonization, this paper provides the historical and geographical formation of a region that were in the principal route to the hinterlands of eastern lands in the Captaincy. Finally this research demonstrates how the ecclesiastical apparatus legitimated domination and gave exploratory senses to the colonial efforts.