Book contents
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- 1 The Portuguese settlement of Brazil, 1500–1580
- 2 Portugal and Brazil, 1580–1750
- 3 Portugal and Brazil, 1750–1808
- 4 Population
- 5 Plantations and peripheries, c. 1580–c. 1750
- 6 Indians and the frontier
- 7 The gold cycle, c. 1690–1750
- 8 Late colonial Brazil, 1750–1808
- 9 The Catholic church
- 10 Architecture and art
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- 1 The Portuguese settlement of Brazil, 1500–1580
- 2 Portugal and Brazil, 1580–1750
- 3 Portugal and Brazil, 1750–1808
- 4 Population
- 5 Plantations and peripheries, c. 1580–c. 1750
- 6 Indians and the frontier
- 7 The gold cycle, c. 1690–1750
- 8 Late colonial Brazil, 1750–1808
- 9 The Catholic church
- 10 Architecture and art
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
Summary
The following general histories of Portugal are indispensable: in English, H. V. Livermore, A New History of Portugal (London, 1966); in Portuguese, A. H. de Oliveira Marques, História de Portugal, 3 vols. (Lisbon, 1980) (trans, into English and French), and Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão, História de Portugal, 12 vols. (Lisbon, 1977–90); in French, A. A. Bourdon, Histoire de Portugal (Paris, 1970), short but very good, and Y. Bottineau, Le Portugal et sa vocation maritime: Histoire et civilisation d’une nation (Paris, 1977), written with style and subtlety, preserving the balance between underlying structures and events. Mention must also be made of the very useful Dicionário de história de Portugal, ed. Joel Serrão, 4 vols. (Lisbon, 196171), Damiao Peres’s great História de Portugal, 8 vols. (Barcelos, 192838), and vols. 1 and 5 of Fortunato de Almeida, História de Portugal (Coimbra, 192231), which consists of a description of Portuguese institutions and their development. A. Silbert, Le Portugal méditerranéen à la fin de l’Ancien Regime, 2 vols. (Paris, 1966) is very useful for the study of agrarian and social structures. On the Portuguese empire, a start can be made with C. R. Boxer, The Portuguese Seaborne Empire, 14151825 (London, 1969), and Four Centuries of Portuguese Expansion 14151825: A Succinct Survey (Johannesburg, 1965). V. Magalhaes Godinho, L’économie de l’empire portugais aux XVe et XVIe siécles (Paris, 1969), has been expanded from the Portuguese, Os descobrimentos e a economia mundial, 2 vols. (Lisbon, 19635; 2nd ed., 4 vols., 1983).
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- The Cambridge History of Latin America , pp. 170 - 174Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995