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Transformations in Portugal and Brazil followed the discovery of gold in Brazil's hinterland and the hinterland's subsequent settlement. Although earlier conquests and evangelizations had incorporated new lands and peoples into the monarchy, royal officials now argued that the extraction of gold and the imperatives of rivalry and commerce demanded new approaches to governance. Using archival records of royal and local administrations, Kirsten Schultz shows how the eighteenth-century Portuguese crown came to define and defend Brazil as a "colony" that would reinvigorate Portuguese power.

"Syria Outlines Plans for Conquest of Aleppo, Backed by Russian Power" is from the June 29, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Ben Hubbard and Anne Barnard and narrated by Caroline Miller.