Before Brasília : frontier life in central Brazil / Mary C. Karasch.
Material type: TextPublisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2016]Edition: [First edition]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- 9780826357632
- 0826357636
- Frontier life in central Brazil
- Goiás (Brazil : State) -- History -- 19th century
- Goiás (Brazil : State) -- History -- 18th century
- Tocantins (Brazil) -- History -- 19th century
- Tocantins (Brazil) -- History -- 20th century
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Brazil
- 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
- HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Brazil
- Brazil -- Goiás (State)
- Brazil -- Tocantins
- 1700-1999
- 981/.73 23
- F2651.G63
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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.
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