Colonial Brazil

Colonial Brazil provides a continuous history of the Portuguese Empire in Brazil from the beginnings of the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

Leslie Bethell (Edited by)

9780521349253, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 7 May 1987

410 pages, 2 b/w illus. 12 maps
22.9 x 15.3 x 2.4 cm, 0.638 kg

Colonial Brazil is a selection of chapters from the Cambridge History of Latin America volumes 1 and 2 brought together to provide a continuous history of the Portuguese Empire in Brazil from the beginning of the sixteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The chapters cover early Portuguese settlement, political and economic structures, plantations and slavery, the gold rushes, the impact of colonial rule on Indian societies, imperial reorganization in the eighteenth century, and demographic and economic change during the final decades of the empire.

List of maps and figures
Note on currency and measurement
Preface
1. Portuguese settlement, 1500–1580 H. B. Johnson
2. Political and economic structures of empire, 1580–1750 Frédéric Mauro
3. Plantations and peripheries, c.1580–1750 Stuart B. Schwartz
4. Indians and the frontier John Hemming
5. The gold cycle, c. 1690–1750 A. J. R. Russell-Wood
6. Imperial re-organization, 1750–1808 Andrée Mansuy-Diniz Silva
7. Late colonial Brazil, 1750–1808 Dauril Alden
A note on literature and intellectual life Leslie Bethell
Bibliographical essays
Index.

Subject Areas: History of the Americas [HBJK]