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

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

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    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.

    Product details

    EAN/ISBN:
    9780761853053
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    174
    Publication date:
    2010-12-17
    Publisher:
    University Press Of America
    EAN/ISBN:
    9780761853053
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    174
    Publication date:
    2010-12-17
    Publisher:
    University Press Of America

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