Colonial Brazil

Colonial Brazil
Author: Leslie Bethell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1987-05-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521349253

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

Go-betweens and the Colonization of Brazil

Go-betweens and the Colonization of Brazil
Author: Alida C. Metcalf
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2013-05-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0292748604

Doña Marina (La Malinche) ...Pocahontas ...Sacagawea—their names live on in historical memory because these women bridged the indigenous American and European worlds, opening the way for the cultural encounters, collisions, and fusions that shaped the social and even physical landscape of the modern Americas. But these famous individuals were only a few of the many thousands of people who, intentionally or otherwise, served as "go-betweens" as Europeans explored and colonized the New World. In this innovative history, Alida Metcalf thoroughly investigates the many roles played by go-betweens in the colonization of sixteenth-century Brazil. She finds that many individuals created physical links among Europe, Africa, and Brazil—explorers, traders, settlers, and slaves circulated goods, plants, animals, and diseases. Intercultural liaisons produced mixed-race children. At the cultural level, Jesuit priests and African slaves infused native Brazilian traditions with their own religious practices, while translators became influential go-betweens, negotiating the terms of trade, interaction, and exchange. Most powerful of all, as Metcalf shows, were those go-betweens who interpreted or represented new lands and peoples through writings, maps, religion, and the oral tradition. Metcalf's convincing demonstration that colonization is always mediated by third parties has relevance far beyond the Brazilian case, even as it opens a revealing new window on the first century of Brazilian history.

Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil

Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil
Author: Alida C. Metcalf
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2005-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780292706521

Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil was originally published by the University of California Press in 1992. Alida Metcalf has written a new preface for this first paperback edition.

The Golden Age of Brazil, 1695-1750

The Golden Age of Brazil, 1695-1750
Author: C. R. Boxer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1962-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520015500

When Brazil's 'golden age' began, the Portuguese were securely established on the coast and immediate hinterland. European rivals - Spanish, French, Dutch - had been repelled, and expansion into the vast interior had begun. By the end of the 'golden age', bandleirantes, missionaries, miners, planters and ranchers had penetrated deep into the continent. In 1750, by the Treaty of Madrid, Spain recognized Brazil's new frontiers. The colony had come to occupy an area slightly greater than that of the ten Spanish colonies in South America put together. Despite conflicts, the fusion of Portuguese, Amerindian and African into a Brazilian entity had begun; and the explosive expansion of Brazil had laid the foundation for the independence that followed in 1822. Professor Boxer deals not only with the turbulent events of the 'golden age' but analyses the economic and administrative changes of the period. He examines the relationships of officials with colonists, of settlers with Indians, of colony with mother country. Professor Boxer's classic study of a critical period in the growth of Brazil (the world's fifth largest country) has long been out of print. It is here reissued with numerous illustrations.

Early Latin America

Early Latin America
Author: James Lockhart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1983-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521299299

A brief general history of Latin America in the period between the European conquest and the independence of the Spanish American countries and Brazil serves as an introduction to this quickly changing field of study.

Fruitless Trees

Fruitless Trees
Author: Shawn William Miller
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780804733960

By and large, Brazil's forests were not simply harvested by the Portugese colonists, but rather annihilated, and relatively little was extracted for the benefit of Brazilians, a tragedy perhaps worse than deforestation alone. Fruitless Trees aims to make sense of what at first glance appears to be the senseless destruction of Brazil's incomparable timber as a result of Portuguese colonial policies.

The Legacy of Dutch Brazil

The Legacy of Dutch Brazil
Author: Michiel van Groesen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2014-06-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107061172

Argues that Dutch Brazil is integral to Atlantic history and made an impact well beyond the colonial and national narratives in the Netherlands and Brazil.

Jews in Colonial Brazil

Jews in Colonial Brazil
Author: Arnold Wiznitzer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1960
Genre: Jews
ISBN:

Relates the history of Portuguese Conversos who settled in Brazil at the beginning of the 16th century, after they had been forced to convert in Portugal in 1497. States that most of them continued to maintain Jewish customs secretly in Brazil, as they had in Portugal. Ch. 2 (p. 12-42) describe the activities of the Inquisition in Brazil between 1591-1618, due to the intensification of these activities after the unification of Portugal and Spain in 1580. The Inquisition was never formally introduced in Brazil, but about 1580 the Bishop of Bahia acquired Inquisitorial authority which permitted him to prepare judicial proceedings against heretics and to hand over violators of the law to the court of the Inquisition in Lisbon. Pp. 143-167 describe cases of persecution endured by specific Conversos between 1654-1822, until Brazil's independence from Portugal.