Colonial Brazil [Paperback]

Colonial Brazil provides a continuous history of the Portuguese Empire in Brazil from the beginnings of the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.Portuguese influences on Latin American development are documented in an account of settlement and colonial rule from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Excerpted from the Cambridge History of Latin America.Portuguese influences on Latin American development are documented in an account of settlement and colonial rule from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Excerpted from the Cambridge History of Latin America.Colonial Brazil is a selection of chapters from the Cambridge History of Latin America volumes 1 and 2 brought together to provide a continous 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, 15001580 H. B. Johnson; 2. Political and economic structures of empire, 15801750 Fr?d?ric Mauro; 3. Plantations and peripheries, c.15801750 Stuart B. Schwartz; 4. Indians and the frontier John Hemming; 5. The gold cycle, c. 16901750 A. J. R. Russell-Wood; 6. Imperial re-organization, 17501808 Andr?e Mansuy-Diniz Silva; 7. Late colonial Brazil, 17501808 Dauril Alden; A note on literature and intellectual life Leslie Bethell; Bibliographical essays; Index.