Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America. - 112

Originally published in Portuguese, this field-defining work by the late historian John M.

Monteiro has been translated into English by Professors Barbara Weinstein and James Woodard.

Monteiro's work established ethnohistory as a field in colonial Brazilian studies and made indigenous history a vital part of how scholars understand Brazil's colonial past.

Drawing on over two dozen collections on both sides of the Atlantic, Monteiro rescued Indians from invisibility, demonstrating their role as both objects and actors in Brazil's colonial past and, most importantly, providing the first history of Indian slavery in Brazil.