Machine generated contents note: 1. The 'discovery' and first encounters with Brazil; 2. The donatarial system; 3. Royal government; 4. The French interlude; 5. Indians, Jesuits, and colonizers; 6. The world of the engenhos; 7. Government and society in Dutch Brazil; 8. Burdens of slavery and race: the war against Palmares; 9. Public and private power; 10. Religion and society; 11. Frontiers.
Early Brazil : a documentary collection to 1700. ISBN 9780521124539. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.