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Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality : Brazil's Contestado Rebellion, 1912-1916 /

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&q...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Diacon, Todd A. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 1991.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.