Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil: The High Court of Bahia and Its Judges, 1609-1751

by Stuart B. Schwartz

While the Spanish enterprise in America is relatively well known to the English-reading public, the Portuguese tropical empire in Brazil has remained until recently an unknown world. In Sovereignty and Society, Stuart B. Schwartz contributes to our understanding of the Brazilian past by providing for the first time a detailed study of the judicial bureaucracy that formed the framework on the colonial regime. This volume describes the process by which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520415272
• ISBN13: 9780520415270
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 478 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"