...Anyda Marchant Gato prêto em campo de neve. Romance de uma viagem aos Estados Unidos . 2d . ed. By Veríssimo Erico . Rio de Janeiro, Pôrto Alegre, and São Paulo , 1961 . Editôra Globo . Coleção Catavento. No. 34 . Pp. 340 . Paper . Copyright 1965 by Duke University Press...

...Joseph L. Love Dos coronéis à metrópole: Fios e tramas da sociedade e da política em Ribeirão Preto no século XX . By Walker Thomas W. and Barbosa Agnaldo De Sousa . Translated by Magri Mariana Carla . Ribeirão Preto : Palavra Mágica , 2000 . Photographs. Tables. Notes...

...Robert C. Smith Copyright 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 Isto é Minas colonial! 99 flagrantes de Ouro Preto, Mariana, Sabará, Congonhas do Campo, São João Del-Rei e Tiradentes . By Freudenfeld R. A. . São Paulo , n. d. Edições Melhoramentos . Pp. 104 . ...

...Alan K. Manchester Os palácios de Vila Rica. Ouro Preto no ciclo do ouro . By Lopes Francisco Antonio . Belo Horizonte, Brazil , 1955 . Imprensa Oficial . Illustrations . Pp. 287 . Paper . Copyright 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 ...

...Robert C. Smith Copyright 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 São Francisco de Assis de Ouro Preto . By Trindade Raimundo . [ Diretoria do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional, Publicação No. 17 .] ( Rio de Janeiro : Ministerio da Educação e Saúde , 1951 . Pp. 497...

...Thomas F. McGann Henrique Dias, governador dos pretos, crioulos e mulatos do estado do Brasil . By Gonsalves de Mello José António . Recife , 1954 . Universidade do Recife . Pp. 71 . Copyright 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 ...

...A. J. R. Russell-Wood Devoção e Escravidão. A Inmandade de Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Pretos no Distrito Diamantino no Século XVIII . By Scarano Julita . São Paulo , 1976 . Companhia Editora Nacional . Tables. Appendices. Bibliography . Pp. 171 . Paper. CR $ 40.00 . Copyright...

... of manumission, Dantas analyzes the different kinds of manumissions and carefully traces the patterns of manumission in both towns with respect to age, gender, and ethnicity as the sources allow. Of particular significance is the distinction between pretos (Africans and people of African descent) and pardos...

... their comments on kingship itself and the king’s rights and obligations. The section on Portugal concludes with Richard A. Preto-Rodas’s “Uriel-Gabriel da Costa: Heir to the Rationalism of the Portuguese Renaissance,” in which he discusses the New Christian’s journey from Christianity to Judaism to rationalism...

... in Minas Gerais—Aleijadinho was a pure genius whose sculptures in wood and soapstone rank him as Brazil’s most important contribution to the world’s masters of art. These sculptures have been a major factor in the promotion of Ouro Prêto’s modern-day status as Brazil’s city of national monuments. Born...

... probably resulted in major demographic movements within the captaincy as a whole, these do not appear to have resulted in a substantial change in the population of Vila Rica. The population reports for the parish of Ouro Prêto during the period 1796-1799, for example, show the population remaining constant...

.... There was inconsistency in the conclusions reached by the police about Veríssimo. To them, O resto é silêncio should not be considered as reflecting the opinion of the author, which thus freed him of suspicion; Gato preto em campo de neve , however, should be considered as reflecting the opinion of the author, which...

... officials on the other in the state of Paraná, far from Riberão Preto, which is near São Paulo’s border with Minas Gerais. Apart from the obvious differences in land tenure and work arrangements, there were highly significant differences between paranense and paulista politics, especially given...

... and technical detail, Eaglin focuses on the Ribeirão Preto region of São Paulo, the epicenter of Brazilian ethanol production by the 1980s, to plot the many twists and turns in this high-profile energy policy's evolution. Collaboration among state agencies, the agribusiness and automobile sectors...

... whites, pardos , and pretos , but not Indians. What the crown actually did with these laboriously compiled reports is unknown. It is unlikely that they were subjected to any sophisticated analysis, for Portugal, like Spain, lacked trained staffs of statisticians comparable to those in Sweden’s...

...Donald Ramos 62 APM, Camara Municipal de Ouro Preto, Registros de Expostos, Codices 88 and 111, passim. The registries for 1774, 1778, and 1788 are only partial. 61 Francisco Vidal Luna and Iracidel Nero da Costa, “Demografia histórica de Minas Gerais,” Revista Brasileira de Estados...

... ; Arroyo, Igrejas ; Bruno, História ; Wernet, A igreja paulista ; Mesgravis, A Santa Casa de Misericórdia ; Amaral, Os pretos ; Quintão, Irmandades negras ; de Groot, Brazilian Catholicism ; Serbin, Needs ; de Theije, “‘Brotherhoods’”; Kiddy, Blacks ; Reis, Death . 83. ACMSP, Nsra da...

... colored who headed these slave-owning households. There were 267 such pardo families in the 15 paulista counties compared to just 16 preto families who owned slaves. They are also evident in the two Minas Gerais counties where there were 898 pardo families that owned slaves and only 87 households headed...

..., these were handled by the comisário (a friar of the Order) of the Third Order in Lisbon, whose seat was in the monastery of São Francisco de Xábregas. 64 The Brotherhood of Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Prêtos of Sal-vador, at its risk, remitted consignments of gold moedas to the procurator...

... in Iguape, where, in 1835, free pretos (blacks) and pardos (mulattoes), including five freed slaves, headed 44 percent of all cane-farming households. Likewise, more than one-fifth (23 percent) of all cane farmers in Iguape did not, according to the census, own a single slave. Of those who did employ...