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Abstract

The text analyses the production and the researches lines followed in the Brazilian Historical Demography. After has made her Ph.D thesis with Professor Louis Henry (Historical Demography father's) and had published this work in Franca, under the title La Ville de São Paulo Peuplement et Population 1750-1850, in 1968, the autor introduced the new science in Brazil. Under this conditions this text is a personal testimony and also a critical analysis about the Brazilian production in 30 years of researches in this field. This study emphasizes the researches lines and the themes who has been receiving the biggest attention by the researches, it means studies about the sources existants for the studies in Brazilian Historical Demography, marriages, families and children: structures and dynamics about free and slave population. On the other hand, this researches has been concentraded in the South-Center of the country and in the period between 1750 and 1850. It also demonstrates that a few attention was given to the studies about fertility, death rates, morbidity and migrations in the past population of Brazil.