Professor Russell-Wood's detailed studies of Brazilian social history in the colonial era have long been recognised as model contributions to the history of class, race, gender and religion. This collection combines work on particular persons and groupings with survey articles on the role of the port and the frontier in colonial Brazil and on its h

Contents: Preface; Ports of colonial Brazil; Frontiers in colonial Brazil: reality, myth and metaphor; Local government in Portuguese America: a study in cultural divergence; Class, creed and colour in colonial Brazil: a study in prejudice; Prestige, power and piety in colonial Brazil: the Third Orders of Salvador; Examination of selected statutes of three African brotherhoods; Women and society in colonial Brazil; António Alvares Pereira: a Brazilian student at the University of Coimbra in the 18th century; Manuel Nunes Viana: paragon or parasite of Empire?; A cause célèbre of colonial Brazil: António Fernandes' personal struggle for justice; United States scholarly contributions to the historiography of colonial Brazil; Index.