Rebellion on the Amazon : the Cabanagem, race, and popular culture in the north of Brazil, 1798-1840 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harris, Mark 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Edition:1st. ed.
Series:Cambridge Latin American studies ; 95
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction: divergent Amazonia; 1. Pará in the age of revolution, history, and historiography; 2. Life on the river; 3. The family and its means in the lower Amazon; 4. Some of the origins of peasant rebellion and the agrarian sector; 5. Forms of resistance in the late colonial period; 6. Independence, liberalism, and changing social and racial relations, 1820-1835; 7. The United Brazilian Encampment at Ecuipiranga, 1833-1837; 8. 'Vengeance on innocence': the repression and continuing rebellion, 1836-1840; Conclusion: the making of the Brazilian Amazon.