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Contact Strategies
Around the year 1800, independent Native groups still effectively controlled about half the territory of the Americas. How did they maintain their political autonomy and territorial sovereignty, hundreds of years after the arrival of Europeans? In a study that spans the eighteenth to twentieth centuries and ranges across the vast interior of South America, Heather F. Roller examines this history of power and persistence from the vantage point of autonomous Native peoples in Brazil. The central argument of the book is that Indigenous groups took the initiative in their contacts with Brazilian society. Rather than fleeing or evading contact, Native peoples actively sought to appropriate what w...
Health and Development
Health and development require one another: there can be no development without a critical mass of people who are sufficiently healthy to do whatever it takes for development to occur, and people cannot be healthy without societal developments that enable standards of health to be maintained or improved. However, the ways in which health and development interact are complex and contested. This volume unites eleven case studies from nine countries in three continents and two international organizations since the late-nineteenth century. Collectively, they show how different actors have struggled to reconcile the sometimes contradictory nature of health and development policies, and the subordination of these policies to a range of political objectives.
Frontiers of Possession
Tamar Herzog asks how territorial borders were established in the early modern period and challenges the standard view that national boundaries are settled by military conflicts and treaties. Claims and control on both sides of the Atlantic were subject to negotiation, as neighbors and outsiders carved out and defended new frontiers of possession.
Amazonian Routes
This book reconstructs the world of eighteenth-century Amazonia to argue that indigenous mobility did not undermine settlement or community. In doing so, it revises longstanding views of native Amazonians as perpetual wanderers, lacking attachment to place and likely to flee at the slightest provocation. Instead, native Amazonians used traditional as well as new, colonial forms of spatial mobility to build enduring communities under the constraints of Portuguese colonialism. Canoeing and trekking through the interior to collect forest products or to contact independent native groups, Indians expanded their social networks, found economic opportunities, and brought new people and resources ba...
Religion and Law in Brazil
Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this convenient resource provides systematic information on how Brazil deals with the role religion plays or can play in society, the legal status of religious communities and institutions, and the legal interaction among religion, culture, education, and media. After a general introduction describing the social and historical background, the book goes on to explain the legal framework in which religion is approached. Coverage proceeds from the principle of religious freedom through the rights and contractual obligations of religious communities; international, transnational, and regional law effects; and the legal p...
Taxing Difference in Peru and New Spain (16th–19th Century)
The book shows how the tribute-paying population in Peru and New Spain negotiated their categorization throughout the colonial period. It explains the fiscal legislation and its application from above as well as how it was shaped from below.
Povos Indígenas, Independência e Muitas Histórias
Por muito tempo, a historiografia acomodou-se à posição de interpretar o Brasil independente sem os indígenas, acionando problemas de investigação e grades de leitura das fontes primárias que tornavam difícil visualizá-los, seja como "protagonistas" históricos, seja mesmo como "variáveis" de importância relativa para a compreensão de eventos e processos. [...] Povos indígenas, independência e muitas histórias – Repensando o Brasil no século XIX é uma coletânea de reflexões que busca agregar os indígenas nesse processo de renovação historiográfica, trazendo e discutindo novos problemas, temas e perspectivas que, nas últimas décadas, têm sido objeto do que se conve...
A questão do direito dos índios sobre as terras que tradicionalmente ocupam
Nesta obra, o leitor encontrará uma reflexão a respeito do direito dos índios às terras que tradicionalmente ocupam, a partir de discussões da Junta de Valladolid, no tratamento dado pelos europeus, notadamente Espanha e Portugal, aos povos indígenas encontrados nas terras do Novo Mundo. A partir da análise das legislações do Brasil Colônia, passando pelo Império e República, constatou-se que a Constituição de 1891 estabeleceu que as terras devolutas pertenceriam aos Estados, época em que foi criado o Serviço de Proteção ao Índio. A obra trata do respeito à posse tendo como base as Constituições de 1934 até 1946 e da evolução do direito dos índios sobre as terras oc...
O Brasil republicano
Aborda personalidades que contribuíram nas lutas pela ampliação dos direitos de cidadania, como também os grupos políticos e sociais contrariados com os avanços dos movimentos de reivindicação no Brasil durante a Quarta República no Brasil.
From Conquest to Colony
A new history of Brazil’s eighteenth century that foregrounds debates about wealth, difference, and governance Transformations in Portugal and Brazil followed the discovery of gold in Brazil’s hinterland and the hinterland’s subsequent settlement. Although earlier conquests and evangelizations had incorporated new lands and peoples into the monarchy, royal officials now argued that the extraction of gold and the imperatives of rivalry and commerce demanded new approaches to governance to ensure that Brazil’s wealth flowed to Portugal and into imperial networks of exchange. Using archival records of royal and local administrations, as well as contemporary print culture, Kirsten Schult...
