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United States Scholarly Contributions to the Historiography of Colonial Brazil

1985; Duke University Press; Volume: 65; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1215/00182168-65.4.683

1527-1900

A. J. R. Russell‐Wood,

Colonialism, slavery, and trade

H TISTORICAL writings on Portuguese America have reached the point, in both mass and quality, that they have become the object of critical evaluation by the international community of scholars. In Brazil, Jose Hon6rio Rodrigues has been as preeminent as he has been prolific, but that he is not alone is evidenced by interpretive essays of Americo Jacobina Lacombe, Carlos Guilherme Mota, and Jose Roberto do Amaral Lapa.' The sole United States representative focusing exclusively on the colonial period has been Stuart B. Schwartz; but for the decade and a half preceding independence he is joined by Stanley J. Stein. It is to Russell H. Bartley that we owe much of our knowledge of Soviet contributions on the relation of plantation slavery to capital accumulation in Western Europe and colonial antecedents to independence movements.2 The long-standing interest of