Table of Contents

• • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction (Maria Sarita Mota, Cláudia C. Azeredo Atallah & Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez)

• Part I.
  Labor and Inequality in the Atlantic Cities

• • 1. Excellent Rowers of the Navy Arsenal (Silene Orlando Ribeiro)
  • 2. Cabeças and escravos novos (Roberto Guedes & Ana Paula Bôscoro)

• Part II.
  Political apparatus and Administration of Justice

• • 3. The political apparatus of Luanda and Lisbon at the end of the Ancien Régime (José Subtil)
  • 4. Imperial cities in the construction of a Portuguese multicontinental judicial system (16th-18th centuries) (Nuno Camarinhas)

• Part III.
  Boundaries
  and inland cities

• • 5. Arraial do Tejuco (Junia Ferreira Furtado)
  • 6. Beyond the Municipal Council (Judy Bieber & Hélida Santos Conceição)
  • 7. From hinterlands to coffee production (Vitória Schettini)

• Part IV.
  Cities between the Atlantic and the Amazon Rainforest

• • 8. São Luís in Iberian Imperial Politics (Helidacy Maria Muniz Corrêa & José Damião Rodrigues)
  • 9. Cities and the expansion of the Portuguese colonial Amazon (Rafael Chambouleyron & Alírio Cardoso)

• Part V.
  Going global: producing urban networks, slaves and plagues

• • 10. Early Globalization in a corner of the Atlantic (Gustavo Acioli)
  • 11. Luanda, Global Capital of the Slave Trade (Maximiliano M. Menz & Wolfgang Lenk)
  • 12. Plague in Portugal (Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva)
• • Notes on contributors
  • List of referees