Quebra-Quilos and Peasant Resistance: Peasants, Religion, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

By Kim Richardson

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761853057
• ISBN13: 9780761853053
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"