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Before Brasília : Frontier Life in Central Brazil /
Before Brasília offers an in-depth exploration of life in the captaincy of Goiás during the late colonial and early national period of Brazilian history.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
[2016]
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| Edición: | [First edition]. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: Contacts and Conquests; 1: Into the "Heart of Brazil": Landscapes of Contact and Decimation; 2: The Indigenous Nations of Central Brazil; 3: Bandeiras and Entradas: The Invaders of Central Brazil; 4: Indigenous Warfare and Peacemaking; PART TWO: Colonial Society: Whites, Pardos, and Blacks; 5: "Good Order": Structures of Empire; 6: The White Propertied Elites of the Captaincy of Goiás; 7: "Masters of the Dance": Enslaved Africans and Crioulos.
- PART THREE: Points of Contact and Culture Change8: People of the Holy Spirit: Christians and Their Sacred Spaces; 9: Shadows in the Night: Women and Gender Relations; 10: Defenders of the Conquest and Useful Vassals: The Free People of Color; CONCLUSION: Reflections on Frontiers/Borderlands of Central Brazil; APPENDIX A: Indigenous Nations of Central Brazil; APPENDIX B : Censuses; APPENDIX C: Colonial Churches and Lay Brotherhoods in the Captaincy of Goiás; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.