Early Brazil: A Documentary Collection to 1700

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.