| Society and Government in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822 Contributor(s): Russell-Wood, A. J. R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0860783332 ISBN-13: 9780860783336 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $113.85 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - South America |
| Dewey: 981 |
| LCCN: 92002433 |
| Series: Variorum Collected Studies |
| Physical Information: (1.36 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 tudes d taill es du professeur Russell-Wood sur l'histoire sociale br silienne durant la p riode coloniale ont longtemps t reconnues comme un mod le de contribution histoire des classes, des races, des genres et des religions. Cette collection allie des travaux au sujet d'individus sp cifiques et de groupements des r sum s d'enqu ate sur la r le du port et de la fronti re dans le Br sil colonial et dans son historiographie. L'auteur d crit l'administration et la structure gouvernementale, ainsi que les r alit s du pouvoir royal, s'appuyant d'exemples tir s des cit s portuaires et des communes mini res de l'int rieur. Il passe ensuite l'examen de l'interaction des classes, des religions et des races en faisant r f rence aux liens de fraternit qui unissaient les personnes de descendance africaine, ainsi qu'aux Troisi mes Ordres qui pratiq |
