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The Tribute of Blood - Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864-1945

English · Hardback

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"This is the most original work on Brazilian social history by a U.S. scholar in the last fifteen years. Events and issues become newly understandable in Peter M. Beattie's presentation of military recruitment as a direct measure of state-building in Brazil."--Dain Borges, University of California, San Diego

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Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
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Author’s Note
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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
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4. Whipping a Dead Letter: The 1874 Recruitment Law under the Empire, 1874-1889
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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
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6. The Troop Trade and the Army as a Protopenal Institution in the Age of Impressment, 1850-1916
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7. Brazilian Soldiers and Enlisted Service in the Age of Impressment, 1870-1916
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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
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9. “Tightening Screw” or “Admirable Filter”?: The 1908 Obligatory Military Service Law, 1906-1916
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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
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Appendix B: Army Recruitment Data
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Appendix C: Populations of Public Disciplining Institutions>
Notes
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Glossary of Portuguese Terms
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Bibliography

Index

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Peter M. Beattie

Summary

Analyses the transformation of army [enlisted] recruitment and service in Brazil between 1864 and 1945, using this history of common soldiers to examine nation building and the social history of Latin America's largest nation.

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