A Rich Realm of Nature Made Poor: Transfrontier Colonialism in Amazonia, 1640- 1760 (book in progress)

 

Chap. 1: A Rich Realm of Nature Disturbed (pdf 221 KB)

Chap 2: The State of Maranhao and Grao Para (pdf 262 KB

Chap. 3: First Bouts, and a Glimmer of Hope (pdf 162 KB)

Chap. 4: Rich Realm Reconnoitered (pdf 310 KB)

Chap. 5: Patterns of Penetration: Slavers and Missionarieson lake Sarace and the Lower Rio Negro

Chap 6: Samuel Fritz, S.J. and the founding of the Portuguese Carmelite Mission to the Solimo Es

Chap 7: Conquest of the Solimoes

Chap 8: Destruction of the Manaos

Chap 9: The Indian Slave Trade of Para in Central Amazonia