Search Results: Royal Government In Colonial Brazil by Dauril Alden

University of California, 1968-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Book in good condition, Pages clean. Slight edge wear.

University of California, 1968-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Cover/edges have minor wear/ tear and scuffing.

xxvii+545 pages with frontispiece, charts, tables, facsimiles, figures, maps, glossary, appendix, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's maroon cloth with gilt lettering spine. Association copy from the library of Dr Donald Worcester. First edition. This is the first detailed analysis in the English language of how Portugal governed Brazil when it was her most important colony. Although the book ranges from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, it focuses particularly on the late eighteenth century, when the controversial Marquis of Pombal dominated the Portuguese government at home and when one of his protégés, the second Marquis of Lavradio, served as the senior officer of the king in the colony. Although the author takes into account the contributions of previous scholars concerning the several themes that are interwoven throughout this study, he has relied especially upon eighteenth-century printed and manuscript materials, the latter… Read More

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. First Edition, First printing. Hard Cover. Inscribed by author on front endpaper! SMALL INK NOTATION ON REAR ENDPAPER, EVIDENCE OF BOOKPLATE REMOVAL ON FRONT PASTEDOWN, OTHERWISE FINE IN NEAR-FINE DUST JACKET WITH ORIGINAL $15.00 PRICE. AMD SLIGHT RUBBING. UNCOMMON SIGNED.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.