Sentencing Canudos: Subalternity in the Backlands of Brazil Contributor(s): Johnson, Adriana Michele Campos (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822961237 ISBN-13: 9780822961239 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press OUR PRICE: $47.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2010 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - South America - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American - History | Historiography |
Dewey: 981.05 |
LCCN: 2010031531 |
Series: Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9" (0.79 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 |
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Publisher Description: In the late nineteenth century, the Brazilian army staged several campaigns against the settlement of Canudos in northeastern Brazil. The colony's residents, primarily disenfranchised former slaves, mestizos, landless farmers, and uprooted Indians, followed a man known as Antonio Conselheiro ("The Counselor"), who promoted a communal existence, free of taxes and oppression. To the fledgling republic of Brazil, the settlement represented a threat to their system of government, which had only recently been freed from monarchy. Estimates of the death toll at Canudos range from fifteen thousand to thirty thousand.
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