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Colonial Brazil (1500-1822)

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationA Companion to Latin American History
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Pages89-105
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)9781405131612
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 21 2011

Keywords

  • Colonial Brazil
  • Duarte Pacheco Pereira, first known Portuguese navigator-to explore Brazil's littoral
  • Indians and Europeans, becoming participants-in each other's power struggles
  • Indigenous population, and European traders and settlers-groups, Tupi-Guarani and the Tapuia
  • Non-sedentary peoples, and mobility-Portugal's pressing interests in Asia
  • Peaceable relations, survival and trade-contacts between Portuguese and Brazil's coastal Indians
  • Plantation enclaves, at Pernambuco and Bahia-hierarchies on free population
  • Portugal, trading posts or feitorias-goods manufactured in Europe, bartered for tropical products
  • The Tupi and other groups, barrier to colonization-inhibiting efforts to clear and cultivate land
  • Two royal edicts, tug-of-war between continuity and change-leading toward independence

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