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Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil
Focusing on the military institutions (army, militia, and National Guard) of Bahia, Brazil, this book analyzes the regions transition from Portuguese colony to province of the Brazilian Empire. It examines the social, racial, and cultural dimensions of post-independence state-building in one of the principal slave plantation regions of the Americas. Contrary to those who stress the autonomy of the Brazilian state, this book documents the close connections between the locally-organized armed forces and society in the late colonial period. Racially segregated and mirroring the class hierarchies of the larger society, these military institutions were profoundly transformed by the war for inde...
Annaes do Archivo Público da Bahia
Includes: Relatório ... pelo diretor do Archivo Público.
Portuguese and Brazilian Books in the John Carter Brown Library, 1537 to 1839
Compilação, com adições, da catalogação realizada na John Carter Brown Library ao longo de vários anos. John Carter Brown era um comerciante nascido em Rhode Island, Estados Unidos, que viveu de 1797 a 1874, e que possuía grande interesse em livros sobre Americana ou livros sobre as Américas. Alguns dos temas que constituem sua coleção particular são: Viagens, expansão européia, incunábulos das Américas do Norte, Central e do Sul, ciências naturais , escravatura, cartografia, direito, religião, história marítima, lliteratura, o âmbito das histórias social, econômica e política.
Feeding the City
On the eastern coast of Brazil, facing westward across a wide magnificent bay, lies Salvador, a major city in the Americas at the end of the eighteenth century. Those who distributed and sold food, from the poorest street vendors to the most prosperous traders—black and white, male and female, slave and free, Brazilian, Portuguese, and African—were connected in tangled ways to each other and to practically everyone else in the city, and are the subjects of this book. Food traders formed the city's most dynamic social component during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, constantly negotiating their social place. The boatmen who brought food to the city from across the bay ...
