Mary C. Karasch

Before Brasília (eBook, ePUB)

Frontier Life in Central Brazil

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Before Brasília offers an in-depth exploration of life in the captaincy of Goiás during the late colonial and early national period of Brazilian history. Karasch effectively counters the "decadence" narrative that has dominated the historiography of Goiás. She shifts the focus from the declining white elite to an expanding free population of color, basing her conclusions on sources previously unavailable to scholars that allow her to meaningfully analyze the impacts of geography and ethnography.

Karasch studies the progression of this society as it evolved from the slaving frontier of the seventeenth century to a majority free population of color by 1835. As populations of indigenous and African captives and their descendants grew throughout Brazil, so did resistance and violent opposition to slavery. This comprehensive work explores the development of frontier violence and the enslavements that ultimately led to the consolidation of white rule over a majority population of color, both free and enslaved.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780826357632
• Artikelnr.: 59594530

Autorenporträt

Mary C. Karasch is a professor emerita of history at Oakland University. She now lives in Tempe, Arizona. Her 1987 book Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850 won the prestigious Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association.