Serras, Adelaide Meira2017-10-122017-10-122013Serras, Adelaide Meira. "The Colony as an eighteenth-century utopian locus. An approach to James Burgh’s An Account of The First Settlement, Laws, Forms of Government, and Police of The Cessares, A People of South America". "A Scholar for all Seasons": Homenagem a João de Almeida Flor. J. Carlos Viana Ferreira, et al. (eds). Lisboa: CEAUL. 2013. 35-42.978-972-8886-21-9http://hdl.handle.net/10451/29289The new new territories, the colonies, represented the chance to transform a ‘possible future’ into a present of new free nations propelled by the militant optimists of the Enlightenment. Thus, they were also considered spaces of utopia. Taking this into account, this chapter analyses James Burgh’s An Account of The First Settlement, Laws, Forms of Government, and Police of The Cessares, A People of South America.engUtopiaBurgh, JamesModernityThe Colony as an eighteenth-century utopian locus. An approach to James Burgh’s An Account of The First Settlement, Laws, Forms of Government, and Police of The Cessares, A People of South Americabook part