Mary C. Karasch

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Mary C. Karasch is a professor emerita of history at Oakland University. She lives in Tempe, Arizona. Her 1987 book Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850 won the prestigious Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association.

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Books by Mary C. Karasch

Before Brasília

Frontier Life in Central Brazil

By Mary C. Karasch

Before Brasília offers an in-depth exploration of life in the captaincy of Goiás during the late colonial and early national period of Brazilian history. Karasch effectively counters the “decadence” narrative that has dominated the historiography of Goiás. She shifts the focus from the declining ...

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