Description: Further DetailsTitle: Adrift on an Inland SeaCondition: NewSubtitle: Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian BacklandsISBN-10: 1503632849EAN: 9781503632844ISBN: 9781503632844Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 01/03/2023Description: From 1750 until Brazil won its independence in 1822, the Portuguese crown sought to extend imperial control over the colony's immense, sea-like interior and exploit its gold and diamond deposits using enslaved labor. Carrying orders from Lisbon into the Brazilian backlands, elite vassals, soldiers, and scientific experts charged with exploring multiple frontier zones and establishing royal authority conducted themselves in ways that proved difficult for the crown to regulate. The overland expeditions they mounted in turn encountered actors operating beyond the state's purview: seminomadic Native peoples, runaway slaves, itinerant poor, and those deemed criminals, who eluded, defied, and reshaped imperial ambitions. This book measures Portugal's transatlantic projection of power against a particular obstacle: imperial information-gathering, which produced a confusion of rumors, distortions, claims, conflicting reports, and disputed facts. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship in the fields of ethnohistory, slavery and diaspora studies, and legal and literary history, Hal Langfur considers how misinformation destabilized European sovereignty in the Americas, making a major contribution to histories of empire, frontiers and borderlands, knowledge production, and scientific exploration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Hal LangfurGenre: HistoryRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Adrift on an Inland Sea
Title: Adrift on an Inland Sea
Subtitle: Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backland
ISBN-10: 1503632849
EAN: 9781503632844
ISBN: 9781503632844
Release Date: 01/03/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 456 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Adrift on an Inland Sea : Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backlands
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2023
Subject: Modern / 18th Century, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Latin America / South America
Item Height: 1.4 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 30.2 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: History
Author: Hal Langfur
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
