Society and Government in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822

ISBN-13: 9780860783336 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 352 str.

A.J.R.Russell- Wood

Opis

Professor Russell-Wooda 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 Portugala s richest colony. Les etudes detaillees du professeur Russell-Wood sur la histoire sociale bresilienne durant la periode coloniale ont longtemps ete reconnues comme un modele de contribution A histoire des classes, des races, des genres et des religions. Cette collection allie des travaux au sujet da individus specifiques et de groupements A des resumes da enquA te sur la rAle du port et de la frontiere dans le Bresil colonial et dans son historiographie. La auteur decrit la administration et la structure gouvernementale, ainsi que les realites du pouvoir royal, sa appuyant da exemples tires des cites portuaires et des communes minieres de la interieur. Il passe ensuite A la examen de la interaction des classes, des religions et des races en faisant reference aux liens de fraternite qui unissaient les personnes de descendance africaine, ainsi qua aux Troisiemes Ordres qui pratiquaient une politique da exclusion raciale. Un groupe parmi les autres, qui a reussi A surmonter les contraintes legales, physiques et sociales, est celui des femmes; qua elles soient da origine europeenne ou africaine, elles ont contribue de faA on decisive a la economie et A la societe bresilienne. Pour terminer, vient sa ajouter la histoire de trois individus, dont chacune des experiences illustrent certaines facettes du systeme judiciaire, gouvernemental et educatif de la plus riche des colonies portugaises."

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Ports of colonial Brazil; Frontiers in colonial Brazil: reality, myth and metaphor; Local government in Portuguese America: a study in cultural divergence; Class, creed and colour in colonial Brazil: a study in prejudice; Prestige, power and piety in colonial Brazil: the Third Orders of Salvador; Examination of selected statutes of three African brotherhoods; Women and society in colonial Brazil; António Alvares Pereira: a Brazilian student at the University of Coimbra in the 18th century; Manuel Nunes Viana: paragon or parasite of Empire?; A cause célèbre of colonial Brazil: António Fernandes’ personal struggle for justice; United States scholarly contributions to the historiography of colonial Brazil; Index.

O autorze

A.J.R. Russell-Wood