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Before Brasília : frontier life in central Brazil
- Title
- Before Brasília : frontier life in central Brazil / Mary C. Karasch.
- Author
- Karasch, Mary C., 1943-
- Publication
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2016.
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- xxiv, 430 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Before Brasília offers an in-depth exploration of life in the captaincy of Goiás during the late colonial and early national period of Brazilian history."--Page 4 of cover.
- Alternative Title
- Frontier life in central Brazil
- Subjects
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Tocantins (Brazil) > History > 20th century
- Brazil > Goiás (State)
- Frontier and pioneer life > Brazil
- 1700-1999
- Goiás (Brazil : State) > History > 18th century
- Indians of South America > Brazil > History
- Brazil > History > Empire, 1822-1889
- History
- Tocantins (Brazil) > History > 19th century
- Brazil > Tocantins
- Portugal > Colonies > South America
- Brazil > History > 1763-1822
- Blacks > Brazil > History
- Slavery > Brazil > History
- Goiás (Brazil : State) > History > 19th century
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-405) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Part one. Contacts and conquests. Into the "heart of Brazil" : landscapes of contact and decimation -- The indigenous nations of central Brazil -- Bandeiras and entradas : the invaders of central Brazil -- Indigenous warfare and peacemaking -- Part two. Colonial society : whites, pardos, and blacks. "Good order" : structures of empire -- The white propertied elites of the captaincy of Goiás -- "Masters of the dance" : enslaved Africans and crioulos -- Part three. Points of contact and culture change. People of the Holy Spirit : Christians and their sacred spaces -- Shadows in the night : women and gender relations -- Defenders of the conquest and useful vassals : the free people of color -- Conclusion : reflections on frontiers/borderlands of central Brazil -- Appendix A. Indigenous nations of central Brazil -- Appendix B. Censuses -- Appendix C. Colonial churches and lay brotherhoods in the captaincy of Goiás.
- Call Number
- Sc E 17-138
- ISBN
- 9780826357625
- 0826357628
- LCCN
- 2016002826
- OCLC
- 946076102
- Author
- Karasch, Mary C., 1943- author.
- Title
- Before Brasília : frontier life in central Brazil / Mary C. Karasch.
- Publisher
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Edition
- [First edition]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-405) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1700-1999
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 17-138