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 Table of contents
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Contents |
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Series Editors' General Introduction, |
vii |
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Preface, Fernando A. Novais, |
xi |
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A House Built on Sand: Capistrano de Abreu and the History of Brazil, Stuart Schwartz, |
xvii |
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Indigenous Antecedents, |
3 |
| 2. |
Exotic Elements, |
14 |
| 3. |
The Discoverers, |
20 |
| 4. |
The First Conflicts, |
30 |
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Hereditary Captaincies, |
35 |
| 6. |
Crown Captaincies, |
43 |
| 7. |
Frenchmen and Spaniards, |
52 |
| 8. |
Fighting the Dutch, |
69 |
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The Backlands, |
91 |
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Setting Boundaries, |
166 |
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Three Centuries Later, |
181 |
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Notes, |
203 |
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Bibliography, |
215 |
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Index, |
221 |
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