Blacks of the Land - Indian Slavery, Settler Society, Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in

The first English translation of the field-defining work in Brazilian studies ethnohistory by the late John M. Monteiro.

List of contents

Foreword; Blacks of the land: preface and acknowledgments; 1. The transformation of indigenous São Paulo in the sixteenth century; 2. Backcountry incursions and the expansion of the labour force; 3. The granary of Brazil; 4. The regime of personal service; 5. Masters and Indians; 6. The roots of rural poverty; 7. The final years of Indian slavery; Afterword.

About the author

James Woodard is Professor of History at Montclair State University. He is the author of A Place in Politics: São Paulo, Brazil, from Seigneurial Republicanism to Regionalist Revolt (2009).Barbara Weinstein is Silver Professor of History at New York University and Past President of the American Historical Association. She is the author of The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil (2015), For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920–1964 (1997), and The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850–1920 (1983).John M. Monteiro was a professor in the Department of Anthropology of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas and the director of the same university's Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. He also held visiting positions at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the University of Michigan, and Harvard University, Massachusetts.

Summary

Professors Barbara Weinstein and James Woodard have translated John M. Monteiro's field-defining work from its original Portuguese into English. The book engages with themes central to slavery studies and ethnohistory and makes clear the degree to which native peoples shaped the colonial history of southeastern Brazil.

Product details

• Authors: John M. Monteiro, James Woodard
• Assisted by: Barbara Weinstein (Translation), James Woodard (Translation), Weinstein Barbara (Editor and translation), James Woodard (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781107535183
• ISBN: 978-1-107-53518-3
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies; Cambridge Latin American Studi; Cambridge Latin American Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Portugal, Brazil, HISTORY / Latin America / General, Colonialism & imperialism, Indigenous Peoples, Colonialism and imperialism, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity