| Miranda s project focuses on the conditions of daily life for soldiers of the West India Company in Dutch-Brazil between 1630 and 1654. Miranda intends to study the following aspects of soldiers daily lives: The structures of military life: recruitment, contracts, training, hierarchy (rank), rules of conduct, punishments, payments, uniforms, troop distribution (demographics data); The structures of everyday life: accommodations, food supply, working conditions, health system, and the soldiers private lives; Social histories: the background of soldiers, rise in rank and rate of involvement in local society. Miranda s work also seeks to investigate the soldiers strategies for facing their daily difficulties, and to analyze material about desertions and mutinies and to elaborate a study about the military situation and strategy of the WIC in Brazil during three different periods of the occupation: conquest (1630-1637), expansion (1637-1644) and Luso-Brazilian insurrection (1644-1654). |
