Millenarian vision, capitalist reality : Brazil's Contestado Rebellion, 1912-1916 / Todd A. Diacon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diacon, Todd A.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Millennialism--Brazil--History--20th century.

Millennialism.

Brazil--History--Contestado Insurrection, 1912-1916.

Brazil.

Santa Catarina (Brazil : State)--History.

Santa Catarina (Brazil : State).

Paraná (Brazil : State)--History.

Paraná (Brazil : State).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-194) and index.

ISBN:

9786613062604

9781283062602

1283062607

9780822382218

0822382210

OCLC:

191222291