Quebra-Quilos and peasant resistance : peasants, religion, and politics in nineteenth-century Brazil / Kim Richardson.
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TextPublication details: Lanham : University Press Of America, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (x, 157 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - 9780761853060
- 0761853065
- Brazil -- History -- Quebra Quilos' Revolt, 1874
- Brazil -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
- Brazil -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Peasant uprisings -- Brazil, Northeast -- History -- 19th century
- Social conflict -- Brazil, Northeast -- History -- 19th century
- Brésil -- Conditions économiques -- 19e siècle
- Brésil -- Conditions sociales -- 19e siècle
- Révoltes paysannes -- Nordeste (Brésil) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America
- Economic history
- Peasant uprisings
- Social conflict
- Social conditions
- Brazil
- Northeast Brazil
- Quebra Quilos' Revolt (Brazil : 1874)
- 1800-1899
- 981.04 22
- F2536 .R534 2011eb
- online - EBSCO
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Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online | online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Online access | Not for loan (Accesso limitato) | Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users | (ebsco)484724 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-152) and index.
In 1874 and 1875 peasants in the Northeastern region of Brazil rose up in rebellion, destroying the weights and measures of the new metric system implemented by the government. Authorities dubbed this the Quebra-Quilos or the "Break the scales" uprising. This analysis of the uprising explores its underlying causes: increased taxes, rising cost of food, the new metric system, the military draft and the imprisonment of two leading Brazilian bishops. The book covers the causes and results of an economy gone awry, governmental attempts at modernization, and nineteenth-century conflicts over church-state relations
Tipping the scales -- Economic collapse -- Role of religion -- Law of recruitment -- Modernization -- Repression.
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