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
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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
For a general approach to the Portuguese empire during the period 1750–1808, there are two fundamental works by C. R. Boxer, The Portuguese Seaborne Empire, 1415–1815 (London, 1969), chaps. 6 and 7, and The Golden Age of Brazil 1695–1750: Growing Pains of a Colonial Society (Berkeley, 1962), final chapter. Useful textbooks include A. H. Oliveira Marques, História de Portugal desde os tempos mais remotos até o governo do Sr. Marcelo Caetano, 3 vols. (Lisbon, 1980), I, chaps. 8 and 9; Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão, História de Portugal, vol. 6, O Despotismo iluminado (1750–1807) (Lisbon, 1982); Joel Serrão and A. H. Oliveira Marques (eds.), A nova história da expansão portuguêsa, vol. 8, O Império luso-brasileiro, 1750–1822 (ed. Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva) (Lisbon, 1986); Jean-François Labourdette, Le Portugal de 1780 a 1802 (Paris, 1985); and História geral da civilizaçdo brasileira, ed. Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, I: A época colonial, 2 vols. (São Paulo, 1960), and II: 0 Brasil monárquico, vol. 1, 0 processo de emancipação (São Paulo, 1962). There are also certain studies of individual reigns which, despite the limitations of their time and genre, deserve mention: Simão José da Luz Soriano, História do reinado de El-Rei D. José e da administração do Marquês de Pombal, 2 vols. (Lisbon, 1867); João Lúcio de Azevedo, O Marquês de Pombal e sua época, 2nd ed. (Lisbon, 1922), an early critical study; Alfredo Duarte Rodrigues, O Marquês de Pombal e os seus biógrafos (Lisbon, 1947), which summarizes the early literature; Caetano Beirão, Dona Maria I (1777–1792), 4th ed. (Lisbon, 1944), still unfortunately the best work on the post-Pombal years; and Angelo Pereira, D.João VI Príncipe e Rei, 4 vols. (Lisbon, 1953–7), I: A retirada da familia real para 0 Brasil (1807).
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- The Cambridge History of Latin America , pp. 174 - 180Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995