Canudos
Subtitle: o povo da terra
By: Marco Antonio Villa.
Series: Ensaios ;; 141
Publisher: Editora Atica
Published: 1995
Place of publication: São Paulo, SP
Language: por
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Brazil -- History -- Canudos Campaign, 1893-1897.
Description: "Useful survey rejects idea that Canudos was a manifestation of messianism and sees it instead as a protest of the rural poor against the destruction of their community and in support of a world free of landowners and coroneis. For this reason, the death of Conselheiro did not end the revolt. Incorporates most modern scholarship and a few primary sources, but is not aware of R. Levine's Vale of tears (see HLAS 54:3342)"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-278).
Slightly revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universidade de São Paulo, 1993.