The Oxford Encyclopedia of Brazilian History and Culture

Guillermo Palacios is a retired professor of history at El Colegio de México, where he was director of the Centro de Estudos Históricos and Coordinator of the Chairs of Brazilian Studies. He earned his PhD in history from Princeton University. He has been a professor-researcher at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Rio de Janeiro) and the Centro de Pós-Graduação em Agricultura e Sociedade (CPDA) of the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) of Mexico City, and El Colegio de Michoacán. He is a member of the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias and the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI). He has been a Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame and Visiting Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Between 2013 and 2017 he served as Cultural Attaché at the Embajada de México in Brazil. He is Senior Editor of the Brazil section of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin AmericanHistory.

• Topical Outline of ArticlesArticles in the encyclopedia are organized alphabetically. Articles in this outline are arranged under the following headings:Precolonial HistoryIndigenous Societies in Brazil before the European ArrivalPre-Columbian Earth Builders of the AmazonColonial Brazil, 1500-1822Africans in Brazil and Afro-Brazilian Religion and CultureAtlantic Sugar Trade in 17th-Century BrazilCartography in the Administration of Portuguese America from the 16th to 18th CenturiesColonial Elites: Planters and Land Nobility in 17th- and 18th-Century BrazilColor and Race in Portuguese America, 1640-1750Dutch in Brazil, 1624-1654Ecclesiastical Geography of Colonial BrazilEconomy during the Colonial PeriodEmpire in the Tropics, 1808-1821: A Historiographical OverviewFrontier, Backlands, and Indigenous Presence in Colonial São PauloGender and Sexuality in Colonial BrazilIndigenous Peoples and the Portuguese Crown in the 17th and 18th CenturiesJustice and Society in Colonial Brazil during the 17th and 18th CenturiesLabor, Territory, and Economy in the Colonial NorthPalmares and Zumbi: Quilombo Resistance to Colonial SlaveryPopular Religion in Colonial BrazilRevolt of the Enteados and Tailors in Bahia, 1798Slavery and Its Economic Structures in Colonial BrazilSugar and the Formation of Colonial BrazilTraders in Colonial Brazil: Origins, Strategies, and NetworksWomen and the Catholic Church in Colonial BrazilImperial Brazil, 1822-1889Abolition of the African Slave Trade in BrazilBalaiada War, 1838-1841Beyond Slavery: Abolition and Post-abolition BrazilBlack Intellectuals in 19th-Century Rio de Janeiro and São PauloCabanagem in Pará, 1835-1840Capoeira: From Slave Combat Game to Global Martial ArtCarnival: Toward a HistoryCoffee and the Formation of Modern Brazil, 1860-1914Cultural Institutions of the Brazilian EmpireEnslaved and Free Workers and the Growth of the Working Class in BrazilFree Afro-Brazilians in the 19th CenturyGender and Sexuality in Brazil since IndependenceHistoriography of Brazil in the 19th CenturyImmigration and the Historical Formation of BrazilIndependence: Change and ContinuityInsurgent Pernambuco: From the Cabanos War (1832-1835) to the Praieira Revolution of 1848National Identity in Brazil and the Paraguayan WarNative Brazilians under the Monarchy in BrazilParaguayan War and Brazil: Conflicts and InterestsPopular Revolts in the Empire of BrazilRio de Janeiro: A Sociocultural HistorySabinada RebellionSexuality and Black Magic in BrazilSlave RevoltsSlavery and International Relations in 19th-Century BrazilSlavery, Race, and the Construction of the Imperial OrderVisions of the Nation in Imperial Brazil: Arts and CelebrationsRepublic of Brazil, Dictatorship, and Military Government, 1889-1985Amazon DevelopmentArchitecture in 20th-Century BrazilArtistic Vanguards in Brazil, 1917-1967Artistic Vanguards in Brazil, 1952-1990Authoritarian Urbanism in the Era of Mass Eradication in Rio de Janeiro, 1960s and 1970sBlack Associational Politics in 20th-Century BrazilBrasilia: Relocating Brazil's Capital InlandCangaço and Cangaceiros: Rural Banditry in the Brazilian NortheastCarmen Miranda: Race, Gender, and Camp CultureCinema and Moviegoing in BrazilContemporary Art in Brazil, 1960s and 1970s: Forging the