UID:
almafu_9959677673302883
Format:
1 online resource (218 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-06260-7
,
9786613062604
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0-8223-8221-0
Series Statement:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Content:
Why did a millenarian movement erupt in the Brazilian interior in 1912? Setting out to answer this deceptively simple question, Todd A. Diacon delivers a fascinating account of a culture in crisis.Combining oral history with detailed archival research, Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality depicts a peasant community whose security in economic, social, and religious relations was suddenly disrupted by the intrusion of international capital. Diacon shows how a "deadly triumvirate" comprised to foreign capital, state power, and local bosses engineered a land tenure revolution th
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
,
The Contestado Rebellion -- The Contestado: Backwater Economy, Patriarchal Society -- Capitalists and Colonists -- The Deadly Triumvirate: State Power, the Brazil Railway Company, and Local Landowners in the Contestado -- Progress and Anarchy -- Millenarianism and the Crisis of Subsistence -- Conclusion: The Power of the Millenarian Call.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-1167-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-1157-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822382218
