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First published in 1999, this volume is an ambitious attempt to
provide a wide-ranging introduction to local government in the
overseas empires of Portugal, Spain, England and France, with
further reference to the English East India Company and the Dutch
East and West India Companies. In an exercise in compensatory
history, the book examines government of empire not from the
metropolitan perspective but at the local level, where government
was most likely to impact on the everyday lives of both persons of
European birth and indigenous peoples. The first part examines the
institutional framework of local and regional government at the
municipal, parish and county levels, extending this to include law
and order, social welfare and education. The second part examines
the social dimension of local government: governance in
pluricultural societies; elite formation; creolization;
representation and oligarchies; oversight, and negotiated
authority. The work includes a comprehensive introduction, together
with an extensive bibliography and a detailed index.
First published in 1999, this volume is an ambitious attempt to
provide a wide-ranging introduction to local government in the
overseas empires of Portugal, Spain, England and France, with
further reference to the English East India Company and the Dutch
East and West India Companies. In an exercise in compensatory
history, the book examines government of empire not from the
metropolitan perspective but at the local level, where government
was most likely to impact on the everyday lives of both persons of
European birth and indigenous peoples. The first part examines the
institutional framework of local and regional government at the
municipal, parish and county levels, extending this to include law
and order, social welfare and education. The second part examines
the social dimension of local government: governance in
pluricultural societies; elite formation; creolization;
representation and oligarchies; oversight, and negotiated
authority. The work includes a comprehensive introduction, together
with an extensive bibliography and a detailed index.
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Professor Russell-Wood's detailed studies of Brazilian social
history in the colonial era have long been recognised as model
contributions to the history of class, race, gender and religion.
This collection combines work on particular persons and groupings
with survey articles on the role of the port and the frontier in
colonial Brazil and on its historiography. The author describes the
administration and structure of government, and the realities of
royal power, with examples drawn from the port cities and the
mining townships of the interior, then moves on to examine the
interplay of class, religion and race with reference to
brotherhoods of persons of African descent and the racially
exclusive Third Orders. One group who overcame legal, physical and
social constraints were women who, whether of European or African
descent, contributed decisively to the economy and society of
Brazil. To conclude, there are accounts of three individuals, each
of whose experiences illustrate facets of the judicial system,
governance and education in Portugal's richest colony. Les etudes
detaillees du professeur Russell-Wood sur l'histoire sociale
bresilienne durant la periode coloniale ont longtemps ete reconnues
comme un modele de contribution A histoire des classes, des races,
des genres et des religions. Cette collection allie des travaux au
sujet d'individus specifiques et de groupements A des resumes
d'enquAte sur la rAle du port et de la frontiere dans le Bresil
colonial et dans son historiographie. L'auteur decrit
l'administration et la structure gouvernementale, ainsi que les
realites du pouvoir royal, s'appuyant d'exemples tires des cites
portuaires et des communes minieres de l'interieur. Il passe
ensuite A l'examen de l'interaction des classes, des religions et
des races en faisant reference aux liens de fraternite qui
unissaient les personnes de descendance africaine, ainsi qu'aux
Troisiemes Ordres qui pratiq
Combining modern scholarship with a wealth of documentary and
archival evidence, this is an authoritative portrait of the lives
of slaves and free persons of colour in colonial Brazil. The author
charts the working conditions, domestic lives, preoccupations and
aspirations of slaves and their fellow freed men. In a work which
underlines the validity and importance of minority histories, he
argues that the slaves and freedmen of colonial Brazil maintained
and preserved their own cultural identity, taking decisions
independently of the white ruling class. The result is not a
history of extremes - black and white, slave and master - but
instead an account of the ambiguities surrounding issues of race,
freedom and the individual, which provides an insight not only in
to the past and present of Brazil, but also into areas of racial
and social identity. With an extensive preface outlining recent
developments in the field, and a full and updated bibliography,
this edition of aims to provide information for students and
historians alike.
This is the story of the first and one of the greatest colonial
empires: its birth, apotheosis, and decline. By approaching the
history of the Portuguese empire thematically, A. J. R.
Russell-Wood is able to pursue ideas and make connections that
previously have been constrained by strict chronological
approaches. Using the study of movement as a focus, Russell-Wood
gains unique insight into the diversity, breadth, and balance
between the competing interests and priorities that characterized
the Portuguese culture and its expansion spanning four centuries'
events on four different continents.
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