Chapters of Brazil's colonial history, 1500-1800 /:

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 o...

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Main Author: Abreu, João Capistrano de, 1853-1927
Other Authors: Brakel, Arthur
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Portuguese
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998, ©1997.
Series:Library of Latin America.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
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 d.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxxiv, 236 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-220) and index.
ISBN:9780198026310
0198026315

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