Early Brazil: A Documentary Collection to 1700
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (616 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521124530 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Not up to the hype The book disappoints and fails to fulfill the hype. It is merely a bunch of documents without sufficient analysis and explanation. It is particularly weak on the donatarial system and doesn't give the necessary credit, often, to pioneering historians who have written about the topics included.
Original documents on early Brazilian history are difficult to find in English, and this collection will serve the interests of undergraduate students, as well as graduate students, who seek to make comparisons or to understand the history of Portuguese expansion.. Early Brazil presents a collection of original sources, many published for the first time in English and some never before published in any language, that illustrates the process of conquest, colonization, and settlement in Brazil. The volume emphasizes the actions and interactions of the indigenous peoples, Portuguese, and Africans in the formation of the first extensive plantation colony based on slavery in the Americas, and it also includes documents that reveal the political, social, religious, and economic life of the colony
These documents offer well-selected representations of the given issues and many of these are translated into English for the first time, making the volume an invaluable addition to the currently quite limited English language literature on the first two centuries of Brazilian development." - Herbert S. Metcalf, Rice University . It will allow Brazil to be much more widely included in comparative discussions of institutional, economic, and religious histories of Latin America." - Alida C. "Nothing like thi
. His books include All Can Be Saved (2008), Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico (2000), The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: South America (1999), Implicit Understandings (1994), Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels (1992), Sugar Plantations in the Formation