Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History is a sourcebook of primary texts and images intended for students and teachers as well as for scholars and general readers. The book centers upon people-people from different parts of the world who came together to form societies by chance and by design in the years after 1492. This text is designed to encourage a detailed exploration of the cultural development of colonial Latin America through a wide variety of documents and visual materials, most of which have been translated and presented originally for this collection. Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History is a revision of SR Books' popular Colonial Spanish America. The new edition welcomes a third co-editor and, most significantly, embraces Portuguese and Brazilian materials. Other fundamental changes include new documents from Spanish South America, the addition of some key color images, plus six reference maps, and a decision to concentrate entirely upon primary sources. The book is meant to enrich, not repeat, the work of existing texts on this period, and its use of primary sources to focus upon people makes it stand out from other books that have concentrated on the political and economic aspects. The book's illustrations and documents are accompanied by introductions which provide context and invite discussion. These sources feature social changes, puzzling developments, and the experience of living in Spanish and Portuguese American colonial societies. Religion and society are the integral themes of Colonial Latin America. Religion becomes the nexus for much of what has been treated as political, social, economic, and cultural history during this period. Society is just as inclusive, allowing students to meet a variety of individuals-not faceless social groups. While some familiar names and voices are included-conquerors, chroniclers, sculptors, and preachers-other, far less familiar points of view complement and complicate the better-known narratives

Colonial Latin America

History

Kenneth Mills

William B. Taylor

Sandra Lauderdale Graham

Americas

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Caetana é uma jovem escrava doméstica de uma fazenda de café do Vale do Paraíba, cujo proprietário decide que ela deve se casar com outro escravo. O casamento é realizado, mas Caetana se recusa a "deitar-se" com o marido. E a recusa é tão obstinada que seu dono resolve pedir a anulação do casamento não-consumado ao tribunal eclesiástico, dando início a um longo processo. Na segunda história, a senhora solteira Inácia Delfina, da ilustre família dos Sousa Werneck, deixa em testamento parte de seus bens - inclusive escravos - para uma família de ex-escravos de sua propriedade. Porém, graças à astúcia do testamenteiro, eles acabam herdando não terras, mas dívidas. A partir do processo de Caetana e do testamento de Inácia, Sandra Graham realiza um impressionante trabalho detetivesco de investigação do passado, juntando cacos dispersos e reconstruindo os cenários, laços familiares, relações de gênero, traços culturais e vínculos econômicos que compõem um retrato da região de economia mais pujante do Brasil em meados do século XIX. Como diz a autora, seu livro pretende "recuperar os atos e as vozes das 'pessoas perdidas'".

Caetana Diz Não (Em Portuguese do Brasil)

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