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Family and frontier in colonial Brazil : Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822
- Title
- Family and frontier in colonial Brazil : Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822 / Alida C. Metcalf.
- Author
- Metcalf, Alida C., 1954-
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HQ594.15.S24 M48 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxi, 280 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Families
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Sozialgeschichte 1580-1822
- Geschichte 1580-1822
- History
- Santana > Parnaíba
- Brazil > Santana de Parnaíba
- Brazil > Colonization
- Sozialer Wandel
- Ländliche Siedlung
- Familie
- Colonization
- Frontier and pioneer life > Brazil > Santana de Parnaíba
- Families > Brazil > Santana de Parnaíba > History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-273) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Family, Frontier, and the Colonization of the Americas -- Indians, Portuguese, and Mamelucos: The Sixteenth-Century Colonization of Sao Vicente -- Town, Kingdom, and Wilderness -- The Origins of Social Class -- Families of Planters -- Families of Peasants -- Families of Slaves -- Conclusion: Family and Frontier at Independence -- Town of Santana de Parnaiba -- Sao Vicente in the Age of the Bandeiras -- Sao Paulo and the Gold Rush -- Towns of Colonial Sao Paulo -- Population of Principal Towns of Sao Vicente, 1676 -- Deaths among Social Groups, Parish of Aracariguama, 1720-1731 -- Two Agricultural Economies: Income from Crops by Class of Farmer, 1798 -- Landownership by Class of Farmer, 1775 -- The Town Center in 1798 -- Race and Class in Parnaiba, 1820 -- Division of Mariana Pais's Estate, 1740 -- Composition of Planter Family Estates, Eighteenth Century -- Settlement Patterns of the Descendants of the Original Founders of Parnaiba -- Settlement Patterns of the Descendants of Mariana Pais, Great-Great-Granddaughter of the Original Founders of Parnaiba -- The Planters of Parnaiba -- Land Use Patterns of the Peasantry, 1775 -- Godparents of Peasant Children -- Households Headed by Men and Women, Peasant Population, 1820 -- Urban and Rural Family Structure, Peasant Population, 1820 -- Female-headed Households, Peasant Population, 1775 and 1820 -- African and Creole Slaves, 1820 -- Crude Marriage Rates, Slave and Free Populations -- Slave Marriages, Santana Parish, 1726-1820 -- Slave Families on Three Large Estates, 1740s.
- ISBN
- 0292706529
- 9780292706521
- LCCN
- 2004053553
- OCLC
- ocm55644882
- 55644882
- SCSB-14704032
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library