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Stringing together a nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the construction of a modern Brazil, 1906-1930
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ISBN: 0822332108 0822332493 9780822332497 0822385473 1283064847 9786613064844 Year: 2004 Publisher: Durham, N.C. Duke University Press

Millenarian vision, capitalist reality : Brazil's contestant rebellion, 1912 - 1916.
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ISBN: 0822311674 0822311577 9786613062604 1283062607 0822382210 Year: 1995 Publisher: Durham Duke university press

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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 th

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