Quebra-Quilos and Peasant Resistance

Quebra-Quilos and Peasant Resistance: Peasants, Religion, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil Richardson Kim Wydawca: University Press of America Data wydania: 2011 ISBN: 9780761853053 Liczba stron: 170 Format: 232 x 155 x 11 Rodzaj oprawy: Paperback / softback Opis produktu: This book explores the complicated, multi-faceted uprising by analyzing its underlying causes: increased taxes, rising costs of foodstuffs, the forced implementation of this new metric system, fear of being drafted into the military and, finally, the imprisonment of two of the leading bishops in Brazil, known as the Religious Question.