Table of Contents

List of maps and figures; Note on currency and measurement; Preface; 1. Portuguese settlement, 1500–1580 H. B. Johnson; 2. Political and economic structures of empire, 1580–1750 Frédéric Mauro; 3. Plantations and peripheries, c.1580–1750 Stuart B. Schwartz; 4. Indians and the frontier John Hemming; 5. The gold cycle, c. 1690–1750 A. J. R. Russell-Wood; 6. Imperial re-organization, 1750–1808 Andrée Mansuy-Diniz Silva; 7. Late colonial Brazil, 1750–1808 Dauril Alden; A note on literature and intellectual life Leslie Bethell; Bibliographical essays; Index.

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Colonial Brazil provides a continuous history of the Portuguese Empire in Brazil from the beginnings of the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.