Colonial Brazil: Foundations, Crises, and Legacies
Special Issue of the Hispanic American Historical Review
(November 2000)
This special issue of the Hispanic American Historical review focuses on the history of colonial Brazil. The first section examines the interaction between Europeans and indigenous peoples on the Brazilian coast and shows how those cultural dynamics were perceived, recorded, transcribed, and eventually constructed into a national history or myth. The second section includes an interesting debate over the colonial economic system and an article on the role of the clergy in gold smuggling in Minas Gerais. The issue concludes with articles that analyze the legacy of colonial practices and institutions that survived after Brazil achieved independence from Portugal in 1822.
Introduction
Brazil: Ironies of the Colonial Past [Stuart B. Schwartz]
Foundations
The Heathen Castes of Sixteenth-Century Portuguese America: Unity, Diversity, and the Invention of the Brazilian Indians [John M. Monteiro]
Hans Staden and the Cultural Politics of Cannibalism [Neil L. Whitehead]
Thevet Revisits Guanabara [Tom Conley]
Mythic Origins: Caramuru and the Founding of Brazil [Janaína Amado]
Crises
Holy and Unholy Alliances: Clerical Participation in the Flow of Bullion from Brazil to Portugal during the Reign of Dom João V (17061750) [A. J. R. Russell-Wood]
Comments, Criticism, and Debate
From Growth to Collapse: Portugal, Brazil, and the Breakdown of the Old Colonial System (17501830) [Jorge M. Pedreira]
Decadence or Crisis in the Luso-Brazilian Empire: A New Model of Colonization in the Eighteenth Century [José Jobson de Andrade Arruda]
Legacies
Political Mobilization, Party Ideology, and Lusophobia in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Pernambuco, 18221850 [Jeffrey Mosher]
Free Colored in a Slave Society: São Paulo and Minas Gerais in the Early Nineteenth Century [Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna]
Obituary
Charles R. Boxer (19042000) [Dauril Alden]
An Appreciation of Charles R. Boxer: Teacher, Scholar, and Bibliophile [A. J. R. Russell-Wood]
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