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Amazonian Routes: Indigenous Mobility and Colonial Communities in Northern Brazil
- H. F. Roller
- Political Science
- 18 June 2014
John M. Monteiro. Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America.
- H. F. Roller
- History
- 1 December 2019
Colonial Collecting Expeditions and the Pursuit of Opportunities in the Amazonian Sertão, c. 1750–1800
- H. F. Roller
- HistoryThe Americas
- 26 March 2010
Every year during the second half of the eighteenth century, as river levels dropped, an average of 1,500 Indian crewmen departed nearly 50 villages for the remote interior forests and waterways of…
Colonial Routes: Spatial Mobility and Community Formation in the Portuguese Amazon
- H. F. Roller
- History
- 14 May 2010
This is a study of how native Amazonians pursued their own interests and built enduring communities under the constraints of Portuguese colonialism. It argues that they did this by following…
“The Indians of This Town Ebb and Flow”Absentee Movements Within the Colonial Sphere
- H. F. Roller
- History
- 18 June 2014
A Shared Toxic History
- H. F. Roller
- Sociology
- 29 December 2020
This essay is about the search for answers in family histories of illness, a search that may never end. It also explores how toxic exposure connects people—mothers and daughters, teachers and…
Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America
- H. F. Roller
- HistoryHispanic American Historical Review
- 1 May 2021
The Tupac Amaru Rebellion by Charles F. Walker (review)
- H. F. Roller
- Art
- 6 July 2015
Charles F. Walker’s book is a vivid narrative history of the tupac Amaru rebellion (1780–82), which profoundly shook, but did not ultimately topple, the foundations of Spanish rule in the Andes. In…
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