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ISSN 1535-3176

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subject Guide to WEB Sites for

colonial Brazilian History

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Edward A. Riedinger

Sebastian Society Occasional Papers Series, No. 10a

Sebastian Press 2005

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Data for CIP:
Riedinger, Edward Anthony, 1944-
Subject Guide to Web Sites for Colonial Brazilian
History / Edward A. Riedinger

Sebastian Society occasional papers series,
1535-3176; no. 10a
1. Brazil – History – To 1822 – Internet
guide. I. Title.

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Preface

Numerous publications in a multitude of languages exist on the history of Brazil. However, it is quite often visual or illustrative materials that most vividly convey a sense of the past to us. Such items, published in print format, are often difficult to encounter or acquire.

The internet, however, has greatly facilitated access not only to a multitude of texts but also a wide array of visual (and audio) materials. Web sites publish not only books and manuscripts but also provide ample access to maps, photographs, paintings, illustrations, animations, and tabular data.

To take advantage of these resources for Brazilian history this series of Subject Guides to Web Sites for Brazilian History has been compiled. It will be completed in three parts, for the following periods: Colony (16th to 18th centuries), Empire (19th century), and Republic (20th and 21st centuries). Regularly updated editions (revised and enlarged) will be maintained at: http://library.osu.edu/sites/latinamerica/BrazilStudsLinx.htm. The inclusion or absence of subjects does not indicate a consideration regarding their importance to Brazilian history but rather to the availability of internet resources on such topics.

The first number in this series deals with colonial Brazilian history. It is particularly important to have extensive materials to visualize and substantiate this period. From the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries, Brazil developed as the largest slavocracy in history. It existed geographically and culturally not so much as a phenomenon on the continent of South America but across the southern Atlantic. The emerging Brazilian character synthesized an array of western African spiritist religions from above the Guinea coast down to the Bantu regions along the southwest coast. These were then "subducted" in a synthesis with Counter-Reformation Catholicism, establishing the core of Brazilian socio-cultural identity. Although lacking demographic density, Brazilian frontiers penetrated rapidly west and south in accord with the continental tributaries of the Amazon and Paraná-Paraguai-Plata river systems. Vast swaths of fertile coastal land, embellished by mineral riches from the interior, came under the control of a narrow elite, who have dominated the economic and political structure of the country into modern times.

In the preparation of this document, the author gratefully acknowledges the aid of his research assistants, Luís Eduardo Granja and Alex Medvedeff.

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Architecture, Manueline -- http://www.jorgecorreiasantos.interdinamica.pt/artes/jcs/x34y.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manueline

Atlantic Ocean and Portuguese history (Government of Madeira) - http://www.ceha-madeira.net/

Atlantic Ocean, winds and currents (animation) for navigation -- http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es2401/es2401page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization and http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/occi/videos/video_nao_w.htm

Captaincies (maps) and Donatory-Captains of Brazil -- http://www.geocities.com/capitanias/capitanias.htm

Flags of Brazil, colonial period -- http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/br-col.html

Lusophone Africa studies -- http://www.h-net.org/~lusoafri/

Maps of Brazil, historical atlas from sixteenth through twentieth centuries -- http://www.brazilbrazil.com/allmap.html

Map (animation) of Rio de Janeiro, historical development -- http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.brazilbrazil.com/h/hst_51860s.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.brazilbrazil.com/allhst.html&h=366&w=569&sz=33&tbnid=e7IWcp-Ry6sJ:&tbnh=84&tbnw=131&hl=en&start=7&prev=/images?q=paco+rio+de+janeiro&hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-20,GGLG:en&sa=N

Maps of Brazil, historical atlas from sixteenth through twentieth centuries -- http://www.brazilbrazil.com/allmap.html

Maps of Rio de Janeiro, historical atlas from sixteenth through twentieth centuries -- http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.brazilbrazil.com/h/hst_51860s.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.brazilbrazil.com/allhst.html&h=366&w=569&sz=33&tbnid=e7IWcp-Ry6sJ:&tbnh=84&tbnw=131&hl=en&start=7&prev=/images?q=paco+rio+de+janeiro&hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-20,GGLG:en&sa=N

Monarchs of Portugal, kings, queens, families (dynasties), and titles -- http://genealogia.netopia.pt/home/indices.php and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Portuguese_monarchs

Order of Christ, Tomar headquarters -- http://www.manorhouses.com/unesco/whtomar.html

Portugal, economic and social conditions, sixteenth century -- http://libro.uca.edu/payne1/payne12.htm

Portugal, explorations, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- http://www.newark.k12.ny.us/staffpages/vanduyne/change/portugal.html

Portugal, historical dictionary -- http://www.arqnet.pt/dicionario/index.html

Portugal, maritime revolution, sixteenth century -- http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/history111/feb12/aschwarz/feb12b/sld001.htm and http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/database/index.htm?fname=text&pictures=yes

Portuguese Atlantic discoveries, the Azores (west of Lisbon) -- http://www.virtualazores.net/historia/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azores

Portuguese Atlantic discoveries, Cape Verde (west of Senegal) -- http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabo_Verde

Portuguese Atlantic discoveries, Madeira (west of Morocco) -- http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeira

Prince Henry the Navigator -- http://www.thornr.demon.co.uk/kchrist/phenry.html and http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/henry.html

Shipbuilding, caravel (The caravel was a light flexible ship prominent in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries for exploration whereas the galleon was a heavier ship for trade and defense developed from the sixteenth century on.) -- http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~feegi/ship.html

Shipbuilding, historical texts -- http://nautarch.tamu.edu/shiplab/indextreatise.htm

Ships, 16th century, images -- http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~ben/meagher.htm

Stamps, postal, earliest authorized -- http://www.clubefilatelicodobrasil.com.br/oclube/index.htm