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Author Diacon, Todd A., author.

Title Millenarian vision, capitalist reality : Brazil's Contestado Rebellion, 1912-1916 / Todd A. Diacon
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 199 pages) : maps
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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
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 that threatened smallholders' subsistence, sparking rebellion among the Contestado peasants. Unlike most analysis of millenarian movements, Diacon combines a material analysis with a careful exploration of the movement's millenarian ideology to demonstrate how a particular combination of external and internal forces produced a crisis of values in the Contestado society. Such a crisis, Diacon concludes, gave a special power to the millenarian vision that promised not only outward reform, but inner salvation as well. This work offers a significant contribution to the literature of millenarian movements, popular religion, peasant rebellions, and the transition to capitalism in Brazil
Analysis Brazil History, 1889-1930
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index
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Subject Millennialism -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
HISTORY / Latin America / South America
Millennialism
Oproeren.
Chiliasme.
Millénarisme -- Brésil -- 20e siècle.
Contestado-Krieg (1912-1915)
Millennialism -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century.
SUBJECT Brazil -- History -- Contestado Insurrection, 1912-1916. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85016570
Santa Catarina (Brazil : State) -- History
Paraná (Brazil : State) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097866
Subject Brazil
Brazil -- Paraná (State)
Brazil -- Santa Catarina (State)
Brasilien
Brésil -- Histoire -- 1912-1916 (Révolte de Contestado)
Paraná (Brésil ; État) -- Histoire.
Santa Catarina (Brésil ; Etat) -- Histoire.
Brazil -- History -- Contestado Insurrection, 1912-1916.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 91000521
ISBN 9780822382218
0822382210