Leslie Bethell (ed.)

Colonial Brazil

Herausgeber: Bethell, Leslie

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Colonial Brazil provides a continuous history of the Portuguese Empire in Brazil from the beginnings of the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 663g
• ISBN-13: 9780521349253
• ISBN-10: 0521349257
• Artikelnr.: 22159716

Inhaltsangabe

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.