Society and Government in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822

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.

ISBN 0860783332   DEWEY edition DC20 ISBN13 9780860783336 (What's this?)   Pages 352 Publisher Ashgate Publishing Group   Volumes 001 Imprint Variorum   Weight (grammes) 650 Format Hardback   Published in Aldershot Publication date 24 Sep 1992   Series title Variorum Collected Studies Non-book description 1 v. (various pagings) :   Height (mm) 157 Library of Congress F2524.R86   Width (mm) 230 DEWEY 981.03   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Preface
		Acknowledgements
I		Ports of Colonial Brazil
II		Frontiers in Colonial Brazil: Reality, Myth and Metaphor
III		Local Government in Portuguese America: A Study in Cultural Divergence
IV		Class, Creed and Colour in Colonial Bahia: A Study in Prejudice
V		Prestige, Power and Piety in Colonial Brazil: The Third Orders of Salvador
VI		Examination of Selected Statutes of Three African Brotherhoods
		Appendix: Transcripts from the statutes of 1686 and 1820
VII		Women and Society in Colonial Brazil
VIII		Antonio Alvares Pereira: A Brazilian Student at the University of Coimbra in the Seventeenth Century
IX		Manuel Nunes Viana: Paragon or Parasite of Empire?
X		A Cause Celebre of Colonial Brazil: Antonio Fernandes' Personal Struggle for Justice
XI		United States Scholarly Contributions to the Historiography of Colonial Brazil
		Index

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