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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (1): 127–128.
Published: 01 February 2013
...Andrew J. Kirkendall Cleansing Honor with Blood: Masculinity, Violence, and Power in the Backlands of Northeast Brazil, 1845–1889 . By Santos Martha S. . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2012 . Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. xvii, 295 pp. Cloth , $65.00...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (2): 373–374.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Jason B. Kauffman Cattle in the Backlands: Mato Grosso and the Evolution of Ranching in the Brazilian Tropics . By Wilcox Robert W. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2017 . Photographs. Maps. Figure. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Index. xviii, 323 pp. Cloth , $45.00 . Copyright ©...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1944) 24 (3): 471–473.
Published: 01 August 1944
...Barbara Hadley Stein Rebellion in the Backlands . By da Cunha Euclydes . Translated by Putnam Samuel . ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1944 . Pp. xxxii , 526 . $5.00 .) Copyright 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (1): 173.
Published: 01 February 1978
...Gerald Cardoso Genius in the Backlands: Popular Artists of Brazil . By Rodman Selden . Photographs by Sassoonian Manu , Negron William and Bridges Marilyn . Old Greenwich, Connecticut , 1977 . The Devin-Adair Company . Illustration. Appendixes . Pp. 148 . Cloth...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 727–728.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Judy Bieber [email protected] Adrift on an Inland Sea: Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backlands . By Hal Langfur . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2023 . Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi , 437 pp. Paper, $35.00 . Copyright...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1958) 38 (1): 160.
Published: 01 February 1958
... Rebellion in the Backlands . By Cunha Euclides da . Translated by Putnam Samuel . Chicago , 1957 . University of Chicago Press . Pp. 532 . $1.95 . Copyright 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (1): 101–132.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Jacob Blanc Abstract The Prestes Column rebellion is among the most mythologized events in modern Brazil: from 1924 to 1927, a group of junior army officers marched nearly 15,000 miles through Brazil's vast interior regions. This Homeric epic into the so-called backlands launched the careers...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (1): 168–169.
Published: 01 February 2005
... pp. $20.00 . Copyright 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 In this monograph, Gerald Greenfield goes beyond his previous examination of imperial elite discourse on the Great Drought—the devastating drought that ravaged the backlands of much of the Brazilian Northeast between 1877 and 1879...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (3): 402–420.
Published: 01 August 1968
... twentieth-century views based on psychological, racial, and geographic determinism, however, are today considered to be inadequate. 3 The cherished view that these movements are the consequence of religious “fanaticism” among the backlanders, moreover, is refuted in a recent study by the late political...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (3): 525–572.
Published: 01 August 1988
..., had traveled as an itinerant missionary through the backlands between 1862 and 1883 founding casas de caridade , institutions serving as orphanages for abandoned girls, shelters for runaways, and schools for the daughters of merchants and landowners. A direct influence on Conselheiro, he emphasized...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (3): 515–516.
Published: 01 August 1993
... University Press 1993 This essay synthesizes the accumulation of unpublished or dispersed revisionist research on the Canudos religious community since Euclides da Cunha’s classic Rebellion in the Backlands (1902). Although Robert Levine modestly calls it “reappraisal” rather than revisionism, little...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (3): 526–527.
Published: 01 August 1973
.... Bibliography . Pp. xi , 178 . Cloth. $7.50 . Copyright 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 The backlands of Brazil’s Northeast fascinated various young Brazilianists in the 1960s, their interests nurtured, perhaps, by Euclides da Cunha’s Rebellion in the Backlands , films such as O Cangaceiro...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1975) 55 (4): 795–797.
Published: 01 November 1975
... guerrillas and his clear, simple prose style. The book begins with the Sao Paulo Revolt of 1924, on the eve of the second anniversary of the Copacabana Revolt in Rio. It then details the formation of the Prestes Column, its exploits in the backlands, and its final internment in Bolivia in 1927. Macaulay...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (3): 549–550.
Published: 01 August 1979
... traces Lampião’s career as a cangaceiro (Northeast backlands bandit) from its beginnings in 1916 up to the final ambush and shoot-out with state police at Angicos in the state of Alagoas in 1938, ending the famous brigand’s eventful life of crime. For twenty-two years, political and police authorities...
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Nation gegen Hinterland — Der Krieg von Canudos in Brasilien: Ein Diskursives Ereignis (1874 – 1903)
Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (2): 406–407.
Published: 01 May 2006
... Press 2006 Dawid Danilo Bartelt’s study revisits the War of Canudos (1896 – 97), a series of military operations by Brazilian state and federal forces against a Bahian backlands community under the leadership of the lay preacher Antônio Vicente Mendes Maciel. Bartelt’s objective is not, however...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (2): 326–328.
Published: 01 May 1980
... of this laudatory account are a series of punitive campaigns commissioned by Afonso Furtado and conducted by itinerant Paulista bandeirantes against “barbarian” Indians of the Bahian backlands who were inhibiting expansion of the cattle industry and his efforts to assist several prospecting expeditions seeking gems...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (3): 545–547.
Published: 01 August 2018
... . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Growing out of a doctoral dissertation in the history and sociology of science program at the University of Pennsylvania, Eve Buckley's new book provides important insights into the problems of the semiarid backlands, or sertão , in the Brazilian interior...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (4): 707–709.
Published: 01 November 2014
... her careful exposition of how social values in this backland region shifted through time and space, Joana Medrado has written a compelling and praiseworthy book. Terra de vaqueiros: Relações de trabalho e cultura política no sertão da Bahia, 1880–1900 . By Medrado Joana . Preface by Filho...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (2): 353–354.
Published: 01 May 2011
... communities along the São Francisco River in the sertão (backlands) in the state of Sergipe. Her point is to show why and how rural people who historically did not identify as Indian or black (descendents of slaves) have assumed or negated such identities in recent years, and she argues that their decisions...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (2): 385–387.
Published: 01 May 2000
... back into poverty. She saved herself from complete ruin by building a suburban home where she could avoid people and grow some of her own food. In 1966 she wrote that almost “a hundred years after abolition, blacks are not free yet” (p. 174). After many years of frustration in the backlands...
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