Mark Harris

Rebellion on the Amazon

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book-length study in English to examine the Cabanagem, one of Brazil's largest peasant and urban-poor insurrections.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9780521437233
• ISBN-10: 0521437237
• Artikelnr.: 30366452

Autorenporträt

Mark Harris is a former UK champion freediver, record-holder and instructor who has also coached and judged at freediving competitions. He has consulted on and taught students how to freedive for roles in both television and film. He ran London's main club, London Freediving for almost a decade. He is a member of the British Society of Underwater Photographers.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: divergent Amazonia
1. Pará in the age of revolution, history, and historiography
2. Life on the river
3. The family and its means in the lower Amazon
4. Some of the origins of peasant rebellion and the agrarian sector
5. Forms of resistance in the late colonial period
6. Independence, liberalism, and changing social and racial relations, 1820-1835
7. The United Brazilian Encampment at Ecuipiranga, 1833-1837
8. 'Vengeance on innocence': the repression and continuing rebellion, 1836-1840
Conclusion: the making of the Brazilian Amazon.