Chapters of Brazil's Colonial History 1500-1800 [Paperback]

InChapters in Brazil's Colonial History, Capistrano de Abreu created an integrated history of Brazil in a landmark work of scholarship that is also a literary masterpiece. Abreu offers a startlingly modern analysis of the past, based on the role of the economy, settlement, and the occupation of the interior. In these pages, he combines sharp portraits of dramatic events--close fought battles against Dutch occupation in the 1650s, Indian resistance to often brutal internal expansion--with insightful social history. A master of Brazil's ethnographic landscape, he provides detailed sketches of daily life for Brazilians of all stripes.
Superbly translated by Arthur A. Brakel and edited by Stuart Schwartz and Fernando Novais, this Brazilian classic has never before available in English.Chapters in Brazil's Colonial Historyopens Brazil's rich, fascinating past to the general reader, and offers scholars access to a great turning point in historical scholarship.

A surprisingly fresh and acerbic review of Brazil's early history. --Kirkus Reviews

De Abreu's eye for the telling detail and ability to keep the sweep of history present in the readers mind has a symphonic effect. --The Wall Street Journal

Arthur Brakelis the translator of Cyro do Anjo'sDiary of a Civil Servantand Jo??o Reis'sSlave Rebellion in Brazil. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Stuart B. Schwartzis George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University.
Fernando Novaisis a Brazilian scholar currently teaching at the University of Campinas, Brazil.