This outstanding and beautifully edited monograph grew and matured from John Monteiro's 1985 University of Chicago thesis and was published in Portuguese in 1994. It, and related publications that Monteiro produced (discussed in the afterword) while a professor at the University of Campinas in São Paulo state, had a significant impact on the subsequent study of Brazil's indigenous peoples. He was both part of and a stimulus to a new generation of Brazilian historians and anthropologists who, although influenced by previous studies of indigenous societies and the Portuguese colonial regime, carried their intensive, often-ethnohistorical regional studies chronologically forward into the later colonial era and the national period. The new, expanded title of this excellent English translation is a bit misleading but probably appropriate since it will attract student readers to a subject on which there are few books of similar quality available in English. The foreword, although slightly excessive in...
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November 01 2019
Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America
Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America
. By Monteiro, John M.. Edited and translated by Woodard, James and Weinstein, Barbara. Cambridge Latin American Studies
. Cambridge
: Cambridge University Press
, 2018
. Tables. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxxii, 254 pp. Paper
, $29.99.Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (4): 733–735.
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Stuart Schwartz; Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 November 2019; 99 (4): 733–735. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-7787280
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