Abstract
This article is a manifest in defense of the history of ruralism in the huge capitania of Sao Vicente in colonial times. It is based on the essential trace of mixed farming, seen as a pulsating core of life in the colony, a contrast to the current privilege of commercial spheres conferred by apparently antagonistic historiographical interpretations
Keywords
Mixed Farming; Agropastoralism; Economic Diversification; New Colonization Standard; Ruralism and Culture