TY  - BOOK
AU  - Richardson,Kim
TI  - Quebra-Quilos and peasant resistance: peasants, religion, and politics in nineteenth-century Brazil 
SN  - 9780761853060 (electronic bk.)
AV  - F2536 .R534 2011eb
U1  - 981.04 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - University Press Of America
KW  - Peasant uprisings
KW  - Brazil, Northeast
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Social conflict
KW  - HISTORY / Latin America / South America
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Brazil
KW  - Quebra Quilos' Revolt, 1874
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-152) and index; Tipping the scales -- Economic collapse -- Role of religion -- Law of recruitment -- Modernization -- Repression
N2  - In 1874 and 1875 peasants in the Northeastern region of Brazil rose up in rebellion, destroying the weights and measures of the new metric system implemented by the government. Authorities dubbed this the Quebra-Quilos or the "Break the scales" uprising. This analysis of the uprising explores its underlying causes: increased taxes, rising cost of food, the new metric system, the military draft and the imprisonment of two leading Brazilian bishops. The book covers the causes and results of an economy gone awry, governmental attempts at modernization, and nineteenth-century conflicts over church-state relations
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