History of Brazil

A three-volume history written by the poet and scholar Robert Southey (1774–1843), first published between 1810 and 1819.

Robert Southey (Author)

9781108052856, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 October 2012

740 pages, 1 map
25.4 x 17.8 x 3.8 cm, 1.26 kg

Robert Southey (1774–1843), Romantic poet and friend of Coleridge, was poet laureate from 1813 to 1843. As well as being distinguished in verse, he also produced successful historical works and was a noted scholar of Portuguese. Between 1810 and 1819 he published this influential three-volume history, drawing on his extensive collection of Portuguese and Spanish books. Originally intended to be part of a larger work on the history of Portugal, this project evolved to focus on Brazil, beginning with its discovery and colonisation by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century and concluding with the relocation of the Portuguese court to Brazil during the Peninsular War. Volume 2 covers the period from 1640 to 1685 and concludes with a review of the state of affairs in Brazil in the seventeenth century. Included are details of slavery, commerce and expeditions into the interior at this time.

Preface
19. The revolution in Portugal announced to Nassau
20. Union proposed between the East and West Indian Companies
21. Retreat of the Dutch
22. Attempt to assassinate Fernandes
23. The bishop of Tucuman invites Jesuits from Brazil and Para
24. System of the Jesuits in Paraguay
25. Cardenas bishop of Paraguay
26. Maranham in a worse state than the older captaincies
27. Vidal takes possession of the government
28. Barreto governor general
29. Affairs of Maranham
30. Boundaries of Maranham
Notes.

Subject Areas: History of the Americas [HBJK]