Before Brasília : frontier life in central Brazil /
Karasch, Mary C., 1943-
Before Brasília : frontier life in central Brazil / Frontier life in central Brazil Mary C. Karasch. - [First edition]. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: Contacts and Conquests; 1: Into the "Heart of Brazil": Landscapes of Contact and Decimation; 2: The Indigenous Nations of Central Brazil; 3: Bandeiras and Entradas: The Invaders of Central Brazil; 4: Indigenous Warfare and Peacemaking; PART TWO: Colonial Society: Whites, Pardos, and Blacks; 5: "Good Order": Structures of Empire; 6: The White Propertied Elites of the Captaincy of Goiás; 7: "Masters of the Dance": Enslaved Africans and Crioulos. PART THREE: Points of Contact and Culture Change8: People of the Holy Spirit: Christians and Their Sacred Spaces; 9: Shadows in the Night: Women and Gender Relations; 10: 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; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.
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.
9780826357632 (electronic bk.) 0826357636 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper)
2016016528
1700-1999
Frontier and pioneer life--Brazil.
HISTORY--Latin America--South America.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Goiás (Brazil : State)--History--19th century.
Goiás (Brazil : State)--History--18th century.
Tocantins (Brazil)--History--19th century.
Tocantins (Brazil)--History--20th century.
Brazil--History--1763-1822.
Brazil--History--Empire, 1822-1889.
Goiás (Brésil : État)--Histoire--19e siècle.
Goiás (Brésil : État)--Histoire--18e siècle.
Brésil--Histoire--1763-1822.
Brésil--Histoire--1822-1889.
Brazil.
Brazil--Goiás (State)
Brazil--Tocantins.
Electronic books.
History.
F2651.G63
981/.73
Before Brasília : frontier life in central Brazil / Frontier life in central Brazil Mary C. Karasch. - [First edition]. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: Contacts and Conquests; 1: Into the "Heart of Brazil": Landscapes of Contact and Decimation; 2: The Indigenous Nations of Central Brazil; 3: Bandeiras and Entradas: The Invaders of Central Brazil; 4: Indigenous Warfare and Peacemaking; PART TWO: Colonial Society: Whites, Pardos, and Blacks; 5: "Good Order": Structures of Empire; 6: The White Propertied Elites of the Captaincy of Goiás; 7: "Masters of the Dance": Enslaved Africans and Crioulos. PART THREE: Points of Contact and Culture Change8: People of the Holy Spirit: Christians and Their Sacred Spaces; 9: Shadows in the Night: Women and Gender Relations; 10: 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; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.
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.
9780826357632 (electronic bk.) 0826357636 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper)
2016016528
1700-1999
Frontier and pioneer life--Brazil.
HISTORY--Latin America--South America.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Goiás (Brazil : State)--History--19th century.
Goiás (Brazil : State)--History--18th century.
Tocantins (Brazil)--History--19th century.
Tocantins (Brazil)--History--20th century.
Brazil--History--1763-1822.
Brazil--History--Empire, 1822-1889.
Goiás (Brésil : État)--Histoire--19e siècle.
Goiás (Brésil : État)--Histoire--18e siècle.
Brésil--Histoire--1763-1822.
Brésil--Histoire--1822-1889.
Brazil.
Brazil--Goiás (State)
Brazil--Tocantins.
Electronic books.
History.
F2651.G63
981/.73