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Brazil at the dawn of the eighteenth century [electronic resource] / André João Antonil ; translated and edited by Timothy J. Coates, completing a partial translation begun by Charles R. Boxer ; preface by Stuart B. Schwartz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Antonil, André João, 1650-1716.
- Series:
- Classic histories from the Portuguese-speaking world in translation ; 1.
- Classic histories from the Portuguese-speaking world in translation ; 1
- Standardized Title:
- Cultura e opulência do Brasil por suas drogas e minas. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sugar growing--Brazil.
- Sugar growing.
- Tobacco--Brazil.
- Tobacco.
- Gold mines and mining--Brazil.
- Gold mines and mining.
- Brazil--Economic conditions--Early works to 1800.
- Brazil.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Dartmouth, Mass : Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth ; [Lebanon, N.H.] : Produced and distributed by University Press of New England, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Antonil's great work, recognized as fundamental for understanding the colonial Brazilian economy, now available in its first English translation
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The agricultural wealth of Brazil in the cultivation of sugar
- pt. 2. The development and wealth of Brazil through the cultivation of Tobacco
- pt. 3. The development and wealth of Brazil by gold mining
- pt. 4. The development and wealth of Brazil by the abundance of cattle, leatherworking, and other royal contracts remaining in this colony.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-91568-5
- 1-933227-51-6
- OCLC:
- 823388704
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