Colonial Brazil (Paperback)

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 Frederic 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 Andree Mansuy-Diniz Silva; 7. Late colonial Brazil, 1750?1808 Dauril Alden; A note on literature and intellectual life Leslie Bethell; Bibliographical essays; Index.