Colonial Brazil

Zusammenfassung Colonial Brazil provides a continuous history of the Portuguese Empire in Brazil from the beginnings of the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of maps and figures; Note on currency and measurement; Preface; 1. Portuguese settlement, 1500-1580 H. B. Johnson; 2. Political and economic structures of empire, 1580-1750 Frédéric Mauro; 3. Plantations and peripheries, c.1580-1750 Stuart B. Schwartz; 4. Indians and the frontier John Hemming; 5. The gold cycle, c. 1690-1750 A. J. R. Russell-Wood; 6. Imperial re-organization, 1750-1808 Andrée Mansuy-Diniz Silva; 7. Late colonial Brazil, 1750-1808 Dauril Alden; A note on literature and intellectual life Leslie Bethell; Bibliographical essays; Index.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Leslie Bethell, Leslie (University of London) Bethell
• Collaboration: Leslie Bethell (Editeur), Bethell Leslie (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 07.05.1987
• EAN: 9780521349253
• ISBN: 978-0-521-34925-3
• Pages: 410
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire par région/pays; Brazil, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, History of the Americas