This article discusses three basic problems: 1. the nature and use of concept of the market in the social sciences; 2. the centrality of the concept of internal market, as formulated by Marx and a certain Marxist tradition for explaining the genesis and the dynamics of capitalism; and 3. the...

This paper focuses on the urbanization process of the Province of Minas Gerais, Brazil over the 19th century. We drawn our analysis from two theories of regional economics: The central places and the systems of cities. Data on occupations gathered from census manuscripts allowed for the...

This paper investigates the role of theory in the historiographic discourse. While there is a general agreement that historiography should be based on documents and that it should prohibit anachronisms, there is little consensus about the role of theory in the production of historiography. This...