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Colonial Brazil / edited by Leslie Bethell

Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 398 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Bethell, Leslie
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Contents
Portuguese settlement, 1500-1580 / H.B. Johnson -- Political and economic structures of empire, 1580-1750 / Frédéric Mauro -- Plantations and peripheries, c. 1580-c. 1750 / Stuart B. Schwartz -- Indians and the frontier / John Hemming -- The gold cycle, c. 1690-1750 / A.J.R. Russell-Wood -- Imperial re-organization, 1750-1808 / Andrée Mansuy-Diniz Silva / -- Late colonial Brazil, 1750-1808 / Dauril Alden.
Summary
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.
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9780511609510 (ebook)
9780521341271 (hardback)
9780521349253 (paperback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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