Cachaça: da senzala à casa-grande - a influência da bebida na vida cotidiana do brasileiro

Abstract

This article seeks to investigate the insertion of cachaça (sugar cane liquor) in people's daily lives and the influence of drink, with agent ideological, cultural, political, economic and social history in Brazil. In this case the debate on the rum is the first in 1942 with the policy of good neighborliness, created by the U.S. government, then analyze the revolt of rum, where I discovered a huge gap in studies of this important event in colonial Brazil, and their developments, its causes and economic consequences. Having as its object of study where the "cachaça" highlight the importance of normative and legislative drink in our law, finally, try to show the spirit portrayed in works of artists of the French mission of Jean Baptiste Debret , pointing to the economic situation, and social in the first half of the nineteenth century with the arrival of the Portuguese court to Brazil