Chapters of Brazil’s Colonial History 1500-1800 (Library of Latin America) by João Capistrano de Abreu (PDF)

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In Chapters in Brazil’s Colonial History, Capistrano de Abreu created an integrated history of Brazil in a landmark work of scholarship that is also a literary masterpiece. Abreu offers a startlingly modern analysis of the past, based on the role of the economy, settlement, and the occupation of the interior. In these pages, he combines sharp portraits of dramatic events–close fought battles against Dutch occupation in the 1650s, Indian resistance to often brutal internal expansion–with insightful social history. A master of Brazil’s ethnographic landscape, he provides detailed sketches of daily life for Brazilians of all stripes.Superbly translated by Arthur A. Brakel and edited by Stuart Schwartz and Fernando Novais, this Brazilian classic has never before available in English. Chapters in Brazil’s Colonial History opens Brazil’s rich, fascinating past to the general reader, and offers scholars access to a great turning point in historical scholarship.

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⭐The author was ahead of his time and became the scholar platform for the others who folloowed

⭐I found this book difficult to understand as well as very boring. The writer made the subject complicated and dull.

⭐In its choice of topics, this book is simliar in many ways to other history books from the early 20th Century. A lot of attention is paid to battles, and to catalogues of geographical data or descriptions. It’s not an easy book to start with, if you’re interested in understanding modern Brazil or its history.But the descriptions of people and of the social climate, especially in the early and later parts of the book, are surprisingly fresh. There are some especially nice touches in the last chapter of the book, such as a few stanzas from a popular song written from the point of view of a famous steer. Also, the author has a wicked sense of humor that made me laugh out loud in a few places.Capistrano de Abreu’s sentences are shorter than typical for academic historians of a hundred years ago, with more punch and less purple prose. The translation is fluid and easy to read. The previous reviewer is right, though, about the sorely-felt absence of a map. I tried to follow along using a wall-sized folding map (1:5 million scale) and was able to muddle through, though many of the historical place-names didn’t appear on my modern version. In any case, most of the passages where the place-names come fast and furious are less essential for enjoying the book.

⭐A great introduction to Brazil’s history. I found in some cases too much detail, and in others not a broad enough narrative. This is the second book I have purchased from the Oxford University Press Library of Latin America, and has motivated me to buy more volumes from this series. As our current economic involvement with Latin America increases, with ever more free trade agreements, it is vital to know more of the history of this region.

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