ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines a Brazilian historiographic panorama that has influenced the "new" economic history schools of thought, and summarizes some important economic studies developed during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries regarding these topics. Regarding the colonial fiscal history of Brazil, within the same context, Tarquinio J. B. de Oliveira wrote about some very important features of the Portuguese Royal Treasury and its administration's dynamics. The Napoleonic Wars exerted a strong impact on the Portuguese Empire: the Portuguese Court moved in 1808 from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, the center of its colonial dominions in South America. In the historiographical scenario, colonial economic aspects have been privileged, with trade and taxation occupying a prominent place. Roberto Simonsen's work provided, to a great degree, the basis for a scientific methodology concerning the study of Brazilian economic history and correspondingly influenced the first generation of historians who would become authentic references for the all-time Brazilian historiography.
