num_pages: 457
description: When Brazil's golden age began the Portuguese were securely established on the coast &amp; immediate hinterland. European rivals-Spanish French Dutch-had been repelled. Expansion into the vast interior had begun. By the end of the golden age bandleirantes missionaries miners planters &amp; ranchers had penetrated deep into the continent. In 1750 by the Treaty of Madrid Spain recognized Brazil's new frontiers. The colony had come to occupy an area slightly greater than that of the ten Spanish colonies in South America put together. Despite conflicts the fusion of Portuguese Amerindian &amp; African into a Brazilian entity had begun. The explosive expansion of Brazil had laid the foundation for the independence that followed in 1822. Professor Boxer deals not only with the turbulent events of the golden age but analyses the economic &amp; administrative changes of the period. He examines the relationships of officials with colonists of settlers with Indians of colony with mother country. Boxer's classic study of a critical period in the growth of Brazil (the world's 5th largest country) has long been out of print. It's here reissued with numerous illustrations.
language: English
title: The Golden Age of Brazil, 1695-1750: Growing Pains of a Colonial Society
publisher: University of California Press (Berkeley/LA)