Early Brazil presents a collection of original sources, many published for the first time in English and some never before published in any language, that illus

Only slightly smaller in size than the United States

Colonial Brazil provides a continuous history of the Portuguese Empire in Brazil from the beginnings of the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

When Brazil's 'golden age' began, the Portuguese were securely established on the coast and immediate hinterland. European rivals - Spanish, French, Dutch - had