Early Brazil - A Documentary Collection to 1700

Informationen zum Autor Stuart B. Schwartz is George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University. His books include All Can Be Saved (2008), Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico (2000), The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: South America (1999), Implicit Understandings (1994), Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels (1992), Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society (1985), Early Latin America (1983), A Governor and His Image in Baroque Brazil (1979), and Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil (1973). Professor Schwartz specializes in the history of colonial Latin America, especially Brazil, and the history of early modern expansion. Klappentext Presents original sources that illustrate the process of conquest, colonization, and settlement in Brazil. Zusammenfassung Early Brazil presents a collection of original sources that illustrate the process of conquest! colonization! and settlement in Brazil. The volume emphasizes the actions and interactions of the indigenous peoples! Portuguese! and Africans in the formation of the first extensive plantation colony based on slavery in the Americas. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The 'discovery' and first encounters with Brazil; 2. The donatarial system; 3. Royal government; 4. The French interlude; 5. Indians, Jesuits, and colonizers; 6. The world of the engenhos; 7. Government and society in Dutch Brazil; 8. Burdens of slavery and race: the war against Palmares; 9. Public and private power; 10. Religion and society; 11. Frontiers.

Product details

• Authors: Stuart B. Schwartz, Stuart B. (Yale University Schwartz
• Assisted by: stuart b Schwartz (Editor), Stuart B. Schwartz (Editor), Stuart B. (Yale University Schwartz (Editor), Schwartz Stuart B. (Editor), Stuart B. Schwartz (Translation), Clive Willis (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.2010
• EAN: 9780521198332
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19833-2
• No. of pages: 346
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Brazil, HISTORY / Latin America / General, c 1500 onwards to present day, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of the Americas