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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (3): 591–593.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Cliff Welch Quebra-Quilos and Peasant Resistance: Peasants, Religion, and Politics in Nineteenth Century Brazil . By Richardson Kim . Lanham, MD : University Press of America , 2011 . Maps. Tables, Notes, Bibliography. Index. xi , 157 pp. Paper . Copyright 2012 by Duke...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (1): 134–135.
Published: 01 February 1981
...Roderick James Barman Quebra-Quilos: Lutas Sociais no Outono do Império . By Maior Armando Souto . São Paulo : Companhia Editora Nacional , 1978 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography . Pp. 213 . Paper . Copyright 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 From November 1874 to January...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (3): 401–424.
Published: 01 August 1977
... it as the work of a fanatical mob masterminded by political opponents, in particular by the Jesuits. Before the central government’s fairly prompt and efficient counter measures could be implemented, the uprising of the Quebra-Quilos (Smash-the-Kilos), as the revolt was dubbed by contemporaries, had already...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1983) 63 (2): 408.
Published: 01 May 1983
... nonetheless existed. The appearance of peace, he contends, was deceiving. The author defines violence broadly in the attempt to garner support for his point. He includes not only the Quebra-quilos Revolt of 1874-75 and the fairly obscure one of Ronco da Abelha (1851-52), but also incidents of sporadic...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (3): 335–351.
Published: 01 August 1992
... of “honorable” working poor to maintain their position apart from slaves and “undesirables.” To support this argument I will examine resistance to draft reform in the Quebra Quilos revolt of 1874 in northeast Brazil. It should come as no surprise that peasants resented being drafted into the army...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (1): 125–126.
Published: 01 February 1995
... the colonial period to the present. Finally, Mörner selects four case studies to illustrate the relationship: the colonial state’s segregation policy in Spanish America, the tension between race and citizenship in postindependence Venezuela, the Quebra Quilos movement in Brazil, and the impact of immigration...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (3): 439–474.
Published: 01 August 1996
... the interior of Pernambuco and Paraíba. Citizens smashed newly standardized metric scales, looted and damaged property, and destroyed municipal records. Authorities attributed the Quebra-Quilos (kilo-breaking) Revolt to public ire over several new reforms: the adoption of the metric system, new taxes...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (1): 135–138.
Published: 01 February 1976
... passing remarks. Did the government co-opt challenges from popular groups, as recent studies of the post-1889 period have hypothesized? Sérgio Buarque records the quebra-kilos revolt in the 1870s and the riot over trolley fares in Rio in the early 1880s, but apparently these movements never became more...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (4): 775–790.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., 566 Proctor, Frank Trey, III (R), 176 Proctor, Frank T., III, Damned Notions of Liberty : Slavery, Culture, and Power in Colonial Mexico, 1640 1769, 755 Puente Luna, José Carlos de la (R), 555 Quebra-Quilos and Peasant Resistance: Peasants, Religion, and Politics in Nineteenth Century Brazil...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (4): 695–701.
Published: 01 November 1977
... of the Quebra-Quilo Revolt, 1874–1875,” appeared in the August 1977 HAHR . ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (3): 431–449.
Published: 01 August 1980
... circles. 3 Other disturbances did occur after 1850, perhaps most notably the Quebra-Quilos revolt in 1874-1875. Although it achieved its immediate aims, it apparently altered neither political relationships nor the cultural understandings of politics. See Roderick J. Barman, “The Brazilian...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1988) 68 (3): 525–572.
Published: 01 August 1988
... Facó, Cangaceiros e fanáticos: Gênese e hitas (Rio de Janeiro, 1963), 30. 115 See Roderick J. Barman, “The Brazilian Peasantry Reexamined: The Implications of the Quebra-Quilo Revolt, 1874-75,” HAHR , 57:3 (Aug. 1977), 401-424 and Armando Souto Maior, Quebra-Quilos: Lutas sociais no outono...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (4): 580–597.
Published: 01 November 1972
... (Rio de Janeiro, 1874), p. 160. 1876—Henrique Augusto Milet, Os Quebra Käos e a crise da lavoura (Recife, 1876), pp. 4-5. Idem, A Lavoura da canna de assucar (Pernambuco, 1881) pp. 104-112. 1880—“Banco Agrícola,” O Brazil agrícola, industrial, commercial, scientífico, litterário e noticioso...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (3): 435–470.
Published: 01 August 2009
... 1891 , 49. 34 The cancellation of the 1880 census may have owed in part to popular revolts in the northeast. Roderick J. Barman, “The Brazilian Peasantry Reexamined: The Implications of the Quebra-quilo Revolt, 1874 – 1875,” Hispanic American Historical Review 57, no. 2 (1977): 401 – 24...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (4): 637–676.
Published: 01 November 1989
..., referring to the weapon used to slay the dragon; Luzianos in Santa Luzia; Ossos (Bones) in Bom Jesus do Calvário; Santo Inácio in the Castelo, where the Jesuit church was located; and Guaiamu in the Cidade Nova district. Notorious individual adepts acquired such nicknames as Quebra-Côco (Skull...
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The Revolta Contra Vacina of 1904: The Revolt Against “Modernization” in Belle-Époque Rio de Janeiro
Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (2): 233–269.
Published: 01 May 1987
... Contra Vacina . Only occasionally (or in the description of the revolt) is the role of the common people indicated (and distorted) by using the term quebra lampiões (streetlamp breakers) to designate those most active in the street violence. The fact that the revolt’s successes were (and remain...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (4): 649–687.
Published: 01 November 1994
...; 185- 86; Manoel Ferreira da Câmara Bittencourt e Sá, Memoria ojferecída á Sociedade de Agricultura, Commercio, e Industria da Bahia (“Memoria sobre a possibilidade de plantarem os lavradores de canna todo, ou grande parte do mantimento de que precisão, sem quebra no producto de canna; e meis [sic...
