Before Brasília

Frontier Life in Central Brazil

By Mary C. Karasch
Published by UNM Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

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About The Book

Before Brasília offers an in-depth exploration of life in the captaincy of Goiás during the late colonial and early national period of Brazilian history.

About The Author

Mary C. Karasch

Mary C. Karasch is a professor emerita of history at Oakland University. She lives in Tempe, Arizona. Her 1987 book Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850 won the prestigious Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association.

Product Details

  • Publisher: UNM Press (November 15, 2021)
  • Length: 456 pages
  • ISBN13: 9780826363329

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A work of superb scholarship that illuminates an area of Brazil and of Brazilian historiography too long neglected. Anyone interested in late colonial / early empire Brazil will find it fascinating.--David McCreery, author of Frontier Goiás, 1822-1889

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Before Brasília

Frontier Life in Central Brazil

By Mary C. Karasch
Published by UNM Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

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