Chapters of Brazil's Colonial History 1500-1800

by Capistrano de Abreu, João; Brakel, Arthur; Novais, Fernando A.; Schwartz, Stuart

• ISBN13: 9780195103021
• ISBN10: 0195103025
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-12-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In Chapters in Brazil's Colonial History , Capistrano de Abreu created an integrated history of Brazil in a landmark work of scholarship that is also a literary masterpiece. Abreu offers a startlingly modern analysis of the past, based on the role of the economy, settlement, and the occupation of the interior. In these pages, he combines sharp portraits of dramatic events--close fought battles against Dutch occupation in the 1650s, Indian resistance to often brutal internal expansion--with insightful social history. A master of Brazil's ethnographic landscape, he provides detailed sketches of daily life for Brazilians of all stripes. Superbly translated by Arthur A. Brakel and edited by Stuart Schwartz and Fernando Novais, this Brazilian classic has never before available in English. Chapters in Brazil's Colonial History opens Brazil's rich, fascinating past to the general reader, and offers scholars access to a great turning point in historical scholarship.

Author Biography

Arthur Brakel is the translator of Cyro do Anjo's Diary of a Civil Servant and Joao Reis's Slave Rebellion in Brazil. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Stuart B. Schwartz is George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University.
Fernando Novais is a Brazilian scholar currently teaching at the University of Campinas, Brazil.

Table of Contents

Library of Latin America	p. ii
Series Editors' General Introduction	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Works on Capistrano De Abreu	p. xv
Works on Capistrano De Abreu	p. xv
A House Built on Sand: Capistrano De Abreu and the History of Brazil	p. xvii
Notes	p. xxxii
Indigenous Antecedents	p. 3
Exotic Elements	p. 14
The Discoverers	p. 20
The First Conflicts	p. 30
Hereditary Captaincies	p. 35
Crown Captaincies	p. 43
Frenchmen and Spaniards	p. 52
Fighting the Dutch	p. 69
The Backlands	p. 91
Setting Boundaries	p. 166
Three Centuries Later	p. 181
Notes	p. 203
Bibliography	p. 215
Index	p. 221
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