The Prestes column : an interior history of modern Brazil / Jacob Blanc.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blanc, Jacob, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brazil--History--1889-1930.

Brazil.

Brazil--Politics and government--1922-1930.

Coluna Prestes (Revolutionary movement)--History.

Coluna Prestes (Revolutionary movement).

Prestes, Luís Carlos, 1898-1990.

Prestes, Luís Carlos.

Other Title:

Prestes Column

Place of Publication:

Duke University Press

Summary:

"In The Prestes Column, Jacob Blanc offers a new interpretation of the legendary rebellion, in which a band of rebel officers and soldiers marched 15,000 miles through the vast interior regions of Brazil between 1924 and 1927. Blanc's analysis of the Prestes Column is a showcase of what he calls "interior history." At a pivotal moment in national politics, the long march of the column came to embody the constructed duality of Brazil's interior: a space that was seen by coastal elites as simultaneously backwards-in relation to the more modern coast-and dormant, an expanse of untapped potential waiting to be brought into the nation. Drawing on a range of materials, from officers' memoirs and local eye-witness accounts to physical memorials and government archives, Blanc's framework of interior history helps explain the column's initial rise to fame and also its enduring legacy across the twentieth century, offering a new approach for the study of space and nation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Rebellion and the Backlands

The Accidental March

Bandeirantes of Freedom

Competing Visions of the Sertão

Bandeirantes in Bahia

Mapping a Myth

Constructing the Knight of Hope

Political Conflict and the Spatial Legacies of Tenentismo

Visions of the Future: Culture and Commemoration

Memory Battles at the Turn of the Century

Memory Sites in the Interior.

ISBN:

1-4780-5908-7