Early Brazil: A Documentary Collection to 1700
, by Edited by Stuart B. Schwartz
- ISBN: 9780521124539 | 0521124530
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 8/10/2009
Presents original sources that illustrate the process of conquest, colonization, and settlement in Brazil.
Stuart B. Schwartz is George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University. His books include All Can Be Saved (2008); Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico (2000); The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: South America (1999); Implicit Understandings (1994); Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels (1992); Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society (1985); Early Latin America (1983); A Governor and His Image in Baroque Brazil (1979); and Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil (1973). Professor Schwartz specializes in the history of colonial Latin America, especially Brazil, and the history of early modern expansion.
| Preface | p. ix |
| A Note on Translation | p. xix |
| A Note on Portuguese Currency, Weights, and Measures | p. xxi |
| The "Discovery" and First Encounters with Brazil | p. 1 |
| The Letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha | p. 1 |
| An Early Report of Brazil | p. 9 |
| The Donatarial System | p. 13 |
| A Royal Charter for the Captaincy of Pernambuco, Issued to Duarte Coelho on 24 September 1534 | p. 14 |
| Three Letters from Duarte Coelho to King John III | p. 18 |
| A Letter from Felipe Guillén to Queen Catarina, Giving News of Porto Seguro and of Mem de Sá's Victory at Rio de Janeiro | p. 33 |
| Royal Government | p. 37 |
| Instructions Issued to the First Governor-General of Brazil, Tomé de Sousa, on 17 December 1548 | p. 37 |
| The Capital: The City of Salvador and the Captaincy of Bahia. The Treatise of Gabriel Soares de Souza | p. 52 |
| A Letter from the Governor-General of Brazil, Tomé de Sousa, to King John III, with Information about the Towns and Settlements That He Had Visited on the Coast of Brazil | p. 82 |
| The Governorship of Mem de Sá | p. 88 |
| Letter from the Governor-General, Mem de Sá, to the Regent, Queen Catarina, Concerning the State of Affairs in Brazil, with Particular Reference to Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo | p. 89 |
| A Letter from the Governor-General, Mem de Sá, to the Regent, Queen Catarina, Concerning the State of Affairs in Brazil | p. 90 |
| Depositions on the Rule of Mem de Sá as Governor-General of Brazil, Written in Salvador, September to December 1570 | p. 93 |
| The French Interlude | p. 101 |
| Letter from Francisco Portocarrero to King John III Concerning the Abuses Committed by the French in Bahia, the Maladministration of the Governor-General, Dom Duarte da Costa, and the Presence of Pirates at Rio de Janeiro | p. 101 |
| Jean de Léry: Excerpts from History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil | p. 103 |
| Corsairs: French Interlopers at Bahia (1614) | p. 113 |
| Indians, Jesuits, and Colonists | p. 117 |
| The Tupinambás | p. 117 |
| Jesuits and Go-Betweens | p. 140 |
| Letter from Father Manoel da Nóbrega to Father Luís Gonçalves da Câmara (31 August 1553) | p. 140 |
| A Jesuit Report: A Letter from Manuel da Nóbrega S.J., in São Vicente, to the Inquisitor-General, Simão Rodrigues S.J., in Lisbon (10? March 1553) | p. 142 |
| The Jesuit Establishment | p. 147 |
| A Colonist's Critique of the Jesuits: Gabriel Soares de Sousa, "Os capitulos" (1592) | p. 160 |
| The Will and Testament of a Bandeirante | p. 192 |
| The World of the Engenhos | p. 198 |
| Excerpt from a Letter from the Administrator of Engenho, São Jorge de Erasmo | p. 198 |
| Cane Farmer Contracts | p. 202 |
| Opportunity for Success: Ambrósio Fernandes Brandão, Great Things of Brazil | p. 204 |
| Instructions on How to Manage a Sugar Mill and Estate | p. 224 |
| The Commerce of Brazil | p. 229 |
| The Crisis of Brazilian Sugar | p. 230 |
| Government and Society in Dutch Brazil | p. 234 |
| A Brief Report on the State That Is Composed of the Four Conquered Captaincies, Pernambuco, Itamaracá, Paraíba, and Rio Grande, Situated in the North of Brazil | p. 234 |
| Burdens of Slavery and Race | p. 264 |
| The War against Palmares: Letter from the Governor of Pernambuco, Ferão de Sousa Coutinho (1 June 1671) on the Increasing Number of Insurgent Slaves Present in Palmares | p. 264 |
| Combating Palmares (c. 1680) | p. 265 |
| Excerpts from the Will and Testament of Paulo de Almeida, a Former Slave (1752) | p. 267 |
| Public and Private Power | p. 271 |
| Arguments of the Inhabitants of Bahia against the Suppression of the High Court (1626) | p. 271 |
| Religion and Society | p. 279 |
| Jesuit Missions: Information for the Lisbon Committee on the Missions, 1702, on General and Economic Matters | p. 279 |
| The Inquisition in Brazil: Two Cases | p. 285 |
| Frontiers | p. 289 |
| The State of Maranhão: A Letter from Father António Vieira S.J. (1653) | p. 290 |
| The Ranching Frontier | p. 296 |
| The Discovery of Gold | p. 298 |
| Index | p. 305 |
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