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Quebra-Quilos and Peasant Resistance: Peasants, Religion, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil Kim Richardson
Quebra-Quilos and Peasant Resistance: Peasants, Religion, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Kim Richardson
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.
170 pages, maps
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 16, 2010 |
| ISBN13 | 9780761853046 |
| Publishers | University Press of America |
| Pages | 170 |
| Dimensions | 162 × 243 × 18 mm · 426 g |
| Language | English |