Revolution in the Terra Do Sol by Sarah Sarzynski
This book examines how entrenched beliefs about Brazil's Northeast region as backwards, barbaric, and violent influenced the trajectory of projects intended to solve the problem of rural poverty during the Cold War and set the stage for the Brazilian Armed Forces' 1964 coup.
"Revolution in the Terra do Sol deftly analyzes the different images and tropes about the Brazilian Northeast that were employed by peasant groups, the Catholic Church, the US. government, the Brazilian Left, and conservative elites to justify their understanding of the region's reality as social conflicts intensified on the eve of the 1964 coup d'état."—James Green, Brown University "This book gives serious consideration to powerful recurring tropes of Northeast Brazil—messianic communities, bloodthirsty bandits, starving peasants—and will help readers to appreciate the power of these vivid representations, and to identify the ways in which they limited understandings of the complex social struggles taking place within Brazil in the years before and after the dictatorship of 1964-1985."—Candace Slater, University of California, Berkeley "Sarzynski's incisive analysis...critically adds to traditional historiographical emphases on peasant mobilization and counterinsurgency doctrine. In tracing the broader historical arc and cultural framework of northeastern Brazilian power struggles, she demonstrates the methodological value of an interdisciplinary approach to the history of Cold War Latin America."—Seth Garfield, Hispanic American Historical Review
Sarah Sarzynski is Assistant Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781503603691 |
| ISBN 10 | 1503603695 |
| Title | Revolution in the Terra Do Sol |
| Author | Sarah Sarzynski |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press |
| Year published | 2018-05-29 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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