Book contents
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- 1 The Portuguese settlement of Brazil, 1500–1580
- 2 Portugal and Brazil, 1580–1750
- 3 Portugal and Brazil, 1750–1808
- 4 Population
- 5 Plantations and peripheries, c. 1580–c. 1750
- 6 Indians and the frontier
- 7 The gold cycle, c. 1690–1750
- 8 Late colonial Brazil, 1750–1808
- 9 The Catholic church
- 10 Architecture and art
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
8 - Late colonial Brazil, 1750–1808
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- 1 The Portuguese settlement of Brazil, 1500–1580
- 2 Portugal and Brazil, 1580–1750
- 3 Portugal and Brazil, 1750–1808
- 4 Population
- 5 Plantations and peripheries, c. 1580–c. 1750
- 6 Indians and the frontier
- 7 The gold cycle, c. 1690–1750
- 8 Late colonial Brazil, 1750–1808
- 9 The Catholic church
- 10 Architecture and art
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
Summary
Volume 6 of Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão, História de Portugal, 12 vols. (Lisbon, 1977–90) is a conservative view of the period and includes extensive bibliographical notes. Other general histories of the period, such as Fortunato de Almeida, História de Portugal, IV (1580–1816) (Coimbra, 1926), and Damião Peres (ed.), História de Portugal, 8 vols. (Barcelos, 1928–38), are badly dated but can still be profitably consulted for some subjects. Although uneven in quality, there are many informative essays in Joel Serrão (ed.), Dicionário de história de Portugal, 4 vols. (Lisbon, 1962–71). For more specialized studies of Portugal under Pombal and his successors, see essay III: 3. For nearly a century and a half the classic history of colonial Brazil has been Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen, História geral do Brasil, 9th ed., 5 vols. (São Paulo, 1975). While it remains worth consulting because of the sources utilized by the author and added to by subsequent editors, it is unsatisfactory as a synthesis for this period because of its defective organization. More readable is the fourth volume of Pedro Calmon, História do Brasil, 7 vols. (Rio de Janeiro, 1959), but the treatment of the post-1750 years in Sérgio Buarque de Holanda (ed.), História geral da civilização brasileira, I, A época colonial, 2 vols. (São Paulo, 1960), is woefully incomplete and disappointing. Far superior, though encyclopaedic, is Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva et al., 0 império luso-brasileiro, 1750–1822, vol. 8 of Joel Serrão and A. H. Oliveira Marques (eds.), Nova história da expansão portuguêsa (Lisbon, 1986). The major interpretive analysis remains Caio Prado Júnior, The Colonial Background of Modern Brazil, translated by Suzette Macedo (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1967), first published in Portuguese more than four decades ago.
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- The Cambridge History of Latin America , pp. 206 - 212Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995
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