| Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil |
| Abbreviations |
| Acknowledgments |
| A Note on Currency |
| A Note on Orthography |
| Introduction Family, Frontier, and the Colonization of the Americas |
| 1 Indians, Portuguese, and Mamelucos The Sixteenth-Century Colonization of São Vicente |
| 2 Town, Kingdom, and Wilderness |
| 3 The Origins of Social Class |
| 4 Families of Planters |
| 5 Families of Peasants |
| 6 Families of Slaves |
| Conclusion Family and Frontier at Independence |
| Appendix A Note on Sources and Methodology |
 | Notes |
| Bibliography |
| Index |
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