Early Brazil: A Documentary Collection to 1700 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521124539)

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. 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.

Author: Stuart B. Schwartz
ISBN-10: 0521124530
ISBN-13: 9780521124539
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/10/2009
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2011