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Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaiba, 1580-1822 by Alida C. Metcalf - 1992-03-23
by Alida C. Metcalf
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Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaiba, 1580-1822
by Alida C. Metcalf
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University of California Press, 1992-03-23. Hardcover. Good.
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- ISBN 10 0520075749
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- Date Published 1992-03-23
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Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaiba, 1580-1822
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Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaiba, 1580-1822
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Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil : Santana de Parnaiba 1580-1822
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Berkeley CA: University of California Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Printing. Hardcover. 0520075749 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 280 pages .
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Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaiba 1580-1822
by Alida C Metcalf (1954- )
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xvi+280 pages with maps, tables, plates, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with gilt purple lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Colonial families in the Brazilian town of Santana de Parnaíba lived on the fringe of settlement in a vast and perilous continent. In her revealing community history, Metcalf tells how these settlers pursued family strategies that adapted European custom to the American environment. Turning to recorded events such as marriages, baptisms, and especially inheritances, she discovers that as the newcomers transformed the wilderness into a settled agricultural community, they laid the foundation for a class society of planters, peasants, and slaves. With an engaging description of family life at all three levels of society, the author shows how the families most successful in exploiting and controlling the resources of the wilderness gained wealth, power, and social dominance. Metcalf…
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Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana De PARNAIBA, 1580-1822
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Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992. Hardcover, signed and dedicated by author on FEP: "For Colin - I've so enjoyed talking with you about these ideas over the years! All the best, Alida. March 7, 1997". Jacket is very slightly sunned at points. Faint stamp on FEP. A very good copy. TS. Signed by Author. Hardcover. Very Good. Used.
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FAMILY AND FRONTIER IN COLONIAL BRAZIL: SANTANA DE PARNAIBA 1580-1822
by ALIDA C. METCALF
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Sao Paulo, Brazil--today a global industrial hub--was once a sparsely-populated Portuguese outpost where Indigenous slavery and strategic marriage alliances were central to the success of the colonial enterprise. Landmark English-language study on Brazilian family and rural community based on careful archival documentation by Rice University professor Alida Metcalf. 280pp. Illustrations. Maps. Charts. Bibliography. In stock. Usually ships in three days.
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US: University of California Press, 1992. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 9.3 x 6 x 1.3 inches.
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