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Formação Histórica do Brasil
by
João Pandiá Calógeras

The Author

João Pandiá Calógeras was a mining engineer by profession, and as can be seen in the list of his works appended to his book, continued thruout his life to publish on subjects mineralogical. He soon became interested in the wider fields of economics and history, and his long career included a term as congressman from his native State of Minas Gerais, and a time as Minister of War.

Technical Details

Copyright, Edition Used

The book was published in Brazil, and rose into the public domain according to that country's laws in the year following the 70th year after the author's death, which occurred in 1934; it has thus been in the public domain since 2005. The edition transcribed here is the 1966 reprint, (called "Sixth edition"), Volume 42 of the series "Brasiliana", Companhia Editora Nacional, São Paulo.

Proofreading

As almost always, I retyped the text by hand rather than scanning it — not only to minimize errors prior to proofreading, but as an opportunity for me to become intimately familiar with the work, an exercise which I heartily recommend: Qui scribit, bis legit. (Well-meaning attempts to get me to scan text, if success­ful, would merely turn me into some kind of machine: gambit declined.)

This transcription has been minutely proofread. In the table of contents above, the sections are shown on blue backgrounds, indicating that I believe the text of them to be completely errorfree. As elsewhere onsite, the header bar at the top of each chapter's webpage will remind you with the same color scheme.

The edition I followed was indifferently proofread, with a number of typographical errors. I marked the few corrections, when important (or unavoidable because inside a link), with a bullet like this;º and when trivial, with a dotted underscore like this: as elsewhere on my site, glide your cursor over the bullet or the underscored words to read the variant.

A small number of odd spellings, curious turns of phrase, etc. have been marked <!‑‑ sic  in the sourcecode, just to confirm that they were checked.

Any over­looked mistakes, please drop me a line, of course: especially if you have a copy of the printed book in front of you.

Illustrations

The book is unillustrated, except for three black-and‑white maps:

In this transcription I omit Maps 1 and 3.

Map 1, which showed many mining places as points on a large map of Brazil, would have been of some interest but was essentially unreadable: the print was tiny.

Map 3 was a straightforward political map of Brazil, also showing the rivers, but otherwise not very detailed. Very little has changed since 1929, and the resources available online are far superior.

Map 2 was worth reproducing. For readability, I've colorized it.

Pagination and Local Links

For citation and indexing purposes, the pagination is shown in the right margin of the text at the page turns (like at the end of this line); p57  these are also local anchors. Sticklers for total accuracy will of course find the anchor at its exact place in the sourcecode.

In addition, I've inserted a number of other local anchors: whatever links might be required to accommodate the author's own cross-references, as well as a few others for my own purposes. If in turn you have a website and would like to target a link to some specific passage of the text, please let me know: I'll be glad to insert a local anchor there as well.

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The icon I use to indicate this subsite is a map of Brazil, in the national colors.

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