Alida C. Metcalf

Go-betweens and the Colonization of Brazil

1500–1600

Doña Marina (La Malinche) ...Pocahontas ...Sacagawea—their names live on in historical memory because these women bridged the indigenous American a...

Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil

Santana de Parnaíba, 1580–1822

Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil was originally published by the University of California Press in 1992. Alida Metcalf has written a new preface...

The Return of Hans Staden

A Go-between in the Atlantic World

Hans Staden’s sixteenth-century account of shipwreck and captivity by the Tupinambá Indians of Brazil was an early modern bestseller. This retellin...

Go-betweens and the Colonization of Brazil, 1500-1600

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Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500

Recognizing early modern cartographers as significant agents in the intellectual history of the Atlantic, Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500 includ...