A product native to the Amazon forest, cacao became the most important staple of the Portuguese Amazonian colonial economy from the late seventeenth until the mid-nineteenth century. Based on extensive research in Brazilian and European archives, this article analyses cacao exploitation in Portuguese Amazonia, examining its dual spatial dimension: the expansion of an agricultural frontier, and the expansion of an extractive frontier in the deep hinterland, with a particular focus on the role that Indian labour played in this development.

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亚马逊大西洋：葡萄牙亚马逊地区的可可、殖民扩张和土著劳工（十七和十八世纪）

一种原产于亚马逊森林的产品，从十七世纪末到十九世纪中叶，可可成为葡萄牙亚马逊殖民经济中最重要的主食。基于对巴西和欧洲档案的广泛研究，本文分析了葡萄牙亚马逊地区的可可开发，考察了其双重空间维度：农业前沿的扩展，以及腹地深处采掘前沿的扩展，特别关注印度劳工在这一发展中发挥的作用。