The Brazilian Frontier in Comparative Perspective
- 1 January 1975
- journal article
- frontier settlements
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Comparative Studies in Society and History
- Vol. 17 (3) , 266-285
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500007854
Abstract
Beyond influencing generations of scholarship in American history, the paradigm of Frederick Jackson Turner has stimulated a series of monographs and articles on the role of the frontier in the formation of other societies. A synthesis of this comparative research on these frontier societies has been ably undertaken by Gerhard and Mikesell. While there have been numerous articles in both English and Portuguese on the Brazilian frontier, these largely descriptive studies have not been systematically integrated into any conceptual framework, much less the comparative tradition inspired by the Turner thesis. In this essay, I propose to test the robustness of the frontier paradigm against some Brazilian frontier experiencesKeywords
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