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THE LATIN AMERICA READERS Series edited by Robin Kirk and Orin Starn, founded by Valerie Millholland THE ARGENTINA READER Edited by Gabriela Nouzeilles and Graciela Montaldo THE BOLIVIA READER Edited by Sinclair Thomson, Seemin Qayum, Mark Goodale, Rossana Barragán, and Xavier Albó THE BRAZIL READER, 2ND EDITION Edited by James N. Green, Victoria Langland, and Lilia Moritz Schwarcz THE CHILE READER Edited by Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, Thomas Miller Klubock, Nara Milanich, and Peter Winn THE COLOMBIA READER Edited by Ann Farnsworth- Alvear, Marco Palacios, and Ana María Gómez López THE COSTA RICA READER Edited by Steven Palmer and Iván Molina THE CUBA READER Edited by Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, and Pamela Maria Smorkaloff THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC READER Edited by Paul Roorda, Lauren Derby, and Raymundo González THE ECUADOR READER Edited by Carlos de la Torre and Steve Striffler THE GUATEMALA READER Edited by Greg Grandin, Deborah T. Levenson, and Elizabeth Oglesby THE LIMA READER Edited by Carlos Aguirre and Charles F. Walker THE MEXICO READER Edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson THE PARAGUAY READER Edited by Peter Lambert and Andrew Nickson THE PERU READER, 2ND EDITION Edited by Orin Starn, Iván Degregori, and Robin Kirk THE RIO DE JANEIRO READER Edited by Daryle Williams, Amy Chazkel, and Paulo Knauss THE WORLD READERS Series edited by Robin Kirk and Orin Starn THE ALASKA NATIVE READER Edited by Maria Shaa Tláa Williams THE BANGLADESH READER Edited by Meghna Guhathakurta and Willem van Schendel THE CZECH READER Edited by Jan Bažant, Nina Bažantová, and Frances Starn THE GHANA READER Edited by Kwasi Konadu and Clifford C. Campbell THE INDONESIA READER Edited by Tineke Hellwig and Eric Tagliacozzo THE RUSSIA READER Edited by Adele Barker and Bruce Grant THE SOUTH AFRICA READER Edited by Clifton Crais and Thomas V. McClendon THE SRI LANKA READER Edited by John Clifford Holt The Brazil Reader SECOND EDITION This page intentionally left blank T H E B R A Z I L R E A D E R HISTORY, CULTUR E, POLITICS SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED James N. Green, Victoria Langland, and Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, editors DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Durham and London 2019 © 2019 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid- free paper ∞ Typeset in Monotype Dante by BW&A Books, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Green, James Naylor, [date] editor. | Langland, Victoria, editor. | Schwarcz, Lilia Moritz, editor. Title: The Brazil reader : history, culture, politics. Description: Second edition, revised and updated / edited by James N. Green, Victoria Langland, and Lilia Moritz Schwarcz. | Durham : Duke University Press, 2018. | Series: The Latin America Readers | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018023531 (print) LCCN 2018026379 (ebook) ISBN 9780822371793 (ebook) ISBN 9780822370925 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 9780822371076 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Brazil—History. | Brazil—Civilization. | Brazil— Politics and government. Classification: LCC F2521 (ebook) | LCC F2521 .B768 2018 (print) | DDC 981—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018023531 Cover art: Luiz Braga, Casa Miritis. © Luiz Braga. Valerie Millholland In memoriam Editor par excellence This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 I Conquest and Colonial Rule, 1500–1579 7 Letter to King Manuel I of Portugal, Pêro Vaz de Caminha 12 Captaincy Charter Granted to Duarte Coelho, King Dom João III 18 Letter from a Jesuit Friar, Manuel da Nóbrega 21 Impressions of a French Calvinist, Nicolas Barre 25 Indigenous Experiences of Colonization, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro 28 On Cannibals, Michel de Montaigne 32 On the Customs of the Indians of the Land, Pero de Magalhães Gândavo 35 A Description of the Tupinambá, Anonymous 38 History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Jean de Léry 41 Portraits: Hans Staden, Victoria Langland 45 II Sugar and Slavery in the Atlantic World, 1580–1694 49 Letter from a Portuguese Trader, Francisco Soares 53 Exploration of the Amazon, Father Cristóbal de Acuña 55 The Inquisition in Brazil, Various authors 59 Excerpts from the Sermon on the Rosary, António Vieira 64 The Sugar Industry, Giovanni Antonio Andreoni 68 The Dutch Siege of Olinda and Recife, Ambrósio Richsoffer 73 An Eyewitness Account of the First Battle of Guararapes, Francisco Barreto de Meneses 76 Two Documents in the War against Palmares, Various authors 79 Bandeirantes, Anonymous 84 Portraits: Count Johan Maurits von Nassau- Seigen, James N. Green 86 III Gold and the New Colonial Order, 1695–1807 91 The Brazilian Gold Rush, Antonio Giovanni Andreoni 97 The Minas Uprising of 1720, Anonymous 100
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