Rebellion on the Amazon

This is the first book-length study in English to examine the Cabanagem, one of Brazil's largest peasant and urban-poor insurrections.

Autorentext
Mark Harris is a former UK champion ­freediver, record-holder and instructor who has also coached and judged at freediving competitions. He has consulted on and taught students how to freedive for roles in both television and film. He ran London's main club, London Freediving for almost a decade. He is a member of the British Society of Underwater Photographers.

Zusammenfassung
The Brazilian Amazon experienced, in the late 1830s, one of Brazil's largest peasant insurrections, known as the Cabanagem, in which rebels succeeded in controlling provincial government for more than a year. Here, the rebellion is placed in the context of late colonial and early national society and economy.

Inhalt
Introduction: divergent Amazonia; 1. Pará in the age of revolution, history, and historiography; 2. Life on the river; 3. The family and its means in the lower Amazon; 4. Some of the origins of peasant rebellion and the agrarian sector; 5. Forms of resistance in the late colonial period; 6. Independence, liberalism, and changing social and racial relations, 1820 1835; 7. The United Brazilian Encampment at Ecuipiranga, 1833 1837; 8. 'Vengeance on innocence': the repression and continuing rebellion, 1836 1840; Conclusion: the making of the Brazilian Amazon.

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