Negotiated Empires
Subtitle: Centers and Peripheries in the New World, 1500-1820
Publisher: Routledge
Published: February 28, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780415925396
First sentence: Portugal claimed jurisdiction over the loosely knit governor generalship of Brazil and Amazonian state of Maranhaoe Grao Para, which together stretched from the Atlantic seabord west to the Andes Mountains and south to the estuary of the Rio de la Plata.