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In Chapters of Brazil's Colonial History, João Capistrano de Abreu created an integrated history of Brazil that is both a landmark work of scholarship and a literary masterpiece. He offers an analysis of the past, based on the role of the economy, settlement, and the occupation of the interior.
A Governor and His Image in Baroque Brazil was first published in
1979. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make
long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published
unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press
editions.This seventeenth-century manuscript describes the life and
death of Afonso Furtado, governor of Brazil from 1671 to 1675. The
obscure author, Juan Lopes Sierra, was an eyewitness to many of the
governor's activities and was clearly a great admirer of Furtado,
whom he calls in his text "Our Hero." The manuscript is a useful
cultural and historical document focusing on the governor's
administration and, especially, on his direction of military
campaigns into the heart of Brazil to subdue hostile Indians and
search for mineral wealth. The author's descriptions of religious
life in the capital city of Salvador and of the elaborate funeral
arrangements for the governor reveal the attitudes and aspirations
of the Brazilian colonial elite. Most important, perhaps, the
document covers on of the least studied periods in Brazilian
history, the years between the great century of sugar and the
half-century of gold. Lopes Sierra wrote in Spanish, though his
subject was Portuguese Brazil, and his manuscript is peppered with
Portuguese/Spanish coinages and classical allusions. Ruth Jones has
mastered the difficult task of translation and Stuart Schwartz
provides a historical context and notes to the translation. The
book is a publication from the James Ford Bell Library of the
University of Minnesota.
Discusses the development of the world's leading civilizations,
emphasising the major stages of interaction between different
peoples and societies. This edition of the text includes an
expanded post-Cold War section as well as the issues of terrorism,
the Gulf Wars and globalization.
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