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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Portugués |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998, ©1997.
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| Colección: | Library of Latin America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxiv, 236 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-220) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198026310 0198026315 |