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Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality : Brazil's Contestado Rebellion, 1912-1916, Paperback / softback Book

Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality : Brazil's Contestado Rebellion, 1912-1916 Paperback / softback

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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 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.

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