{"product_id":"colonial-brazil-paperback-9780521349253","title":"Colonial Brazil (Paperback) 9780521349253","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eColonial Brazil\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eColonial Brazil provides a continuous history of the Portuguese Empire in Brazil from the beginnings of the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLeslie Bethell (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521349253, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 7 May 1987\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e410 pages, 2 b\/w illus.  12 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.3 x 2.4 cm, 0.638 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eColonial 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of maps and figures\u003cbr\u003e Note on currency and measurement\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Portuguese settlement, 1500–1580 H. B. Johnson\u003cbr\u003e 2. Political and economic structures of empire, 1580–1750 Frédéric Mauro\u003cbr\u003e 3. Plantations and peripheries, c.1580–1750 Stuart B. Schwartz\u003cbr\u003e 4. Indians and the frontier John Hemming\u003cbr\u003e 5. The gold cycle, c. 1690–1750 A. J. R. Russell-Wood\u003cbr\u003e 6. Imperial re-organization, 1750–1808 Andrée Mansuy-Diniz Silva\u003cbr\u003e 7. Late colonial Brazil, 1750–1808 Dauril Alden\u003cbr\u003e A note on literature and intellectual life Leslie Bethell\u003cbr\u003e Bibliographical essays\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of the Americas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of the Americas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20the%20Americas%20%5BHBJK%5D%22\"\u003eHBJK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45909037646104,"sku":"9780521349253","price":34.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521349253i_83990f2c-85e3-4180-bf78-d1ae05cca8ca.jpg?v=1691375549","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/colonial-brazil-paperback-9780521349253","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}