Early Brazil : a documentary collection to 1700 /

"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 indi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schwartz, Stuart B. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Portugués
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, [2010]
Temas:
To 1822
HISTORY.
Brazil > History > To 1822 > Sources.
Brésil > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1822 > Sources.
Brazil.
Brasilien > Geschichte Neuzeit > Quelle.
Brasilien.
History.
Sources.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The "discovery" and first encounters with Brazil. The letter of Pero Vaz De Caminha
  • An early report of Brazil
  • Tidings out Of Brazil
  • The donatarial system. A royal charter for the Captaincy of Pernambuco, issued to Duarte Coelho on 24 September 1534
  • Three letters from Duarte Coelho to King John III
  • A letter from Felipe Guillén to Queen Catarina, giving News of Porto Seguro and of Mem De Sá's victory at Rio De Janeiro
  • Royal government. Instructions issued to the first Governor-General of Brazil, Tomé De Sousa, on 17 December 1548
  • The Capital: The city of Salvador and the Captaincy of Bahia. The treatise of Gabriel Soares De Souza
  • A letter from the Governor-General of Brazil, Tomé De Sousa to King John III with information about the towns and settlements that he had visited on the coast of Brazil
  • The governorship of Mem de Sá
  • The French interlude. Letter from Francisco Portocarrero to King John III concerning the abuses committed by the French in Bahia, the maladministration of the Governor-General Dom Duarte da Costa, and the presence of pirates at Rio de Janeiro
  • Excerpts from The history of a voyage to the land of Brazil / Jean de Léry
  • Corsairs: French interlopers at Bahia (1614)
  • Indians, Jesuits, and colonists. The Tupinambás
  • Jesuits and go-betweens
  • The Jesuit establishment
  • A colonist's critique of the Jesuits: Gabriel Soares de Sousa, "Os capitulos" (1592)
  • The will and testament of a bandeirante
  • The world of the Engenhos. Excerpt from a letter from the Administrator of Engenho / São Jorge de Erasmo
  • Cane farmer contracts
  • Opportunity for success: Ambrósio Fernandes Brandão, Great things of Brazil
  • Instructions on how to manage a sugar mill and estate
  • The commerce of Brazil
  • The crisis of Brazilian sugar
  • Government and society in Dutch Brazil. A brief report on the state that is composed of the four conquered captaincies: Pernambuco, Itamaracá, Paraíba, and Rio Grande situated in the north of Brazil
  • Burdens of slavery and race. The war against Palmares: letters from the Governor of Pernambuco, Ferão de Sousa Coutinho (1 June 1671) on the increasing number of insurgent slaves present in Palmares
  • Combating Palmares (c. 1680)
  • Excerpts from the will and testament of Paulo de Almeida, a former slave (1752)
  • Public and private power. Arguments of the inhabitants of Bahia against the suppression of the High Court (1626)
  • Religion and society. Jesuit missions: information for the Lisbon committee on the missions 1702, on general and economic matters
  • The Inquisition in Brazil: two cases
  • Frontiers. The state of Maranhão: a letter from Father António Vieira, S.J. (1653)
  • The ranching frontier
  • The discovery of gold.

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