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Spectacular Wealth
Bridging print culture and performance, Spectacular Wealth draws on eighteenth-century festival accounts to explore how colonial residents of the silver-mining town of Potos�, in the viceroyalty of Peru, and the gold-mining region of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, created rich festive cultures that refuted European allegations of barbarism and greed. In her examination of the festive participation of the towns' diverse inhabitants, including those whose forced or slave labor produced the colonies' mineral wealth, Lisa Voigt shows how Amerindians, Afro-descendants, Europeans, and creoles displayed their social capital and cultural practices in spectacular performances. Tracing the multiple meanings and messages of civic festivals and religious feast days alike, Spectacular Wealth highlights the conflicting agendas at work in the organization, performance, and publication of festivals. Celebrants and writers in mining boomtowns presented themselves as far more than tributaries yielding mineral wealth to the Spanish and Portuguese empires, using festivals to redefine their reputations and to celebrate their cultural, spiritual, and intellectual wealth.
Opera in the Tropics
Opera in the Tropics is an engaging exploration of theater with music in Brazil from the mid 1500s to the early 1820s. Author Rogério Budasz delves into the practices of the actors, singers, poets, and composers who created and performed Jesuit moral plays, Spanish comedias, and Portuguese vernacular operas and entremezes during the colonial period, as well as the Italian operas that celebrated the new independent nation in 1822. A Brazilian producer claimed in 1825 that the goal of music-theater was to instruct, entertain, and distract the population. Budasz argues that this threefold goal had in fact been present throughout the colonial period, in different combinations and with different...
The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History
This Oxford Handbook comprehensively examines the field of Latin American history.
Bahia's Independence
Since 1824, Bahians have marked independence with a popular festival that contrasts sharply with the official commemoration of Brazil's independence on 7 September. The Dois de Julho (2 July) festival celebrates the day the Portuguese troops were expelled from Salvador in 1823, the culmination of a year-long war that gave independence a radical meaning in Bahia. Bahia's Independence traces the history of the Dois de Julho festival in Salvador, the Brazilian state's capital, from 1824 to 1900. Hendrik Kraay discusses how the festival draws on elements of saints' processions, carnivals, and civic ritual in the use of such distinctive features as the indigenist symbols of independence called th...
Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World
Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World is a collection of essays on the cities of the Portuguese empire written by the leading scholars in the field. The volume, like the empire it analyzes, has a global scope and a chronological span of three centuries. The contributions focus on the social, political, and economic aspects of city life in settlements as far apart as Rio de Janeiro, Mozambique Island, and Nagasaki. As well as sparking further comparisons between cities found within the Portuguese empire, this collection also raises important issues that will be of interest to historians of other European empires, as well as urban historians generally.
A Época Pombalina" no mundo luso-brasileiro"
Como outras tantas "totalidades históricas", a Época Pombalina é uma "construção histórica", qualidade previamente ressalvada pelos organizadores. Assim, à luz anunciadora de um período, o livro contempla realidades de um vasto império da Época Moderna. Sua relevância consiste no fato de se tratar de uma obra organizada e publicada no Brasil, caracterizada por um enfoque múltiplo que vai da história econômica à nova história política, passando pela história cultural e outros campos da história, abrangendo uma variedade de temas, muitos dos quais já classicamente abordados nos estudos pombalinos.
A Biblioteca e a Nação:
A Biblioteca Nacional brasileira é a oitava maior do mundo. Mais do que livros, suas estantes estão repletas de documentos que contribuem para a formação da memória nacional, servindo como semióforos da Nação, como nos lembra Marilena Chauí. Tendo como objeto de estudo os conteúdos dos Anais da Biblioteca Nacional, os acervos nominados "Memória do Mundo" pela Unesco e as exposições em comemorações a efemérides nacionais, o livro A Biblioteca e a Nação: entre catálogos, exposições, documentos e memória busca compreender os caminhos e descaminhos na construção do imaginário social acerca do que é a Nação brasileira pela Biblioteca Nacional.
Novas pautas para a História Social
Quando dos 500 anos do "achamento" do Brasil, Manolo Florentino deu uma entrevista para a Folha de São Paulo tecendo algumas considerações sobre aquela efeméride. O que ficará da efeméride dos 40 anos do PPGHIS? A memória em forma de comemoração. Uma festa, um vídeo, mas, principalmente, um conjunto de ensaios e artigos que demarca a produção de nossos professores e homenageia nossa história, relembrando também tantos que passaram por aqui e já partiram, como Manolo Florentino e, mais recentemente, José Murilo de Carvalho. Em 2022, o Programa de Pós-Graduação em História Social da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro completou quarenta anos de funcionamento e de credenc...
