Beattie / Mignolo / Silverblatt The Tribute of Blood

Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864–1945
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8110-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 415 Seiten

Reihe: Latin America Otherwise

Argues that the reform of military recruitment in Brazil had a profound impact, second only to the abolition of slavery, on institutions of social discipline and the lives of the poor.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beattie, Peter M.

Mignolo, Walter D.

Silverblatt, Irene

Saldívar-Hull, Sonia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Author’s Note

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Introduction: Soldiers of Misfortune, Soldiers by Lot

I. Impressment, Penal Transportation, Defense, and Politics, 1549-1905

1. “Nabbing Time”: The Heritage of Portugal’s Gunpowder Empire, 1549-1905

2. Raising the “Pagan Rabble”: Wartime Impressment and the Crisis of National Recruitment, 1864-1870

3. The “Law of the Minotaur”? Postwar Reformism and the Recruitment of Law, 1870-1874

4. Whipping a Dead Letter: The 1874 Recruitment Law under the Empire, 1874-1889

5. “And One Calls This Misery a Republic?”: The 1874 Recruitment Law under the Early Republic, 1889-1905

II. Soldiers, Their Lives, and the Army’s Institutional Roles, 1850-1919

6. The Troop Trade and the Army as a Protopenal Institution in the Age of Impressment, 1850-1916

7. Brazilian Soldiers and Enlisted Service in the Age of Impressment, 1870-1916

8. Days of Caschaca, Sodomy, and the Lash: Army Crime and Punishment in the Age of Impressment, 1870-1916

III. Implementing Conscription and Reorienting the Army’s Role, 1906

9. “Tightening Screw” or “Admirable Filter”?: The 1908 Obligatory Military Service Law, 1906-1916

10. Making the Barracks a “House” and the Army a “Family”: Assessing the Conscription Lottery, 1916-1945

Conclusions: Army, Masculine Honor, Race, and Nation

Appendix A: Military Crime Data

Appendix B: Army Recruitment Data

Appendix C: Populations of Public Disciplining Institutions

Notes

Glossary of Portuguese Terms

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peter M. Beattie is Assistant Professor of History at Michigan State University.