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30 - History

University of Essex

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Output 3 of 68 in the submission

Chapter title

"Sustentar a Constituição e a Santa Religião Católica, amar à Pátria e o Imperador". Liberalismo popular e o idéario da Balaiada no Maranhão.

Type

C - Chapter in book

DOI

Publisher of book

Alameda

Book title

Revoltas, motins, revoluções: homens livres pobres e libertos no Brasil do século XIX

ISBN of book

9788579390944

Year of publication

2012

URL

Number of additional authors

Additional information

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

Research group

None

Proposed double-weighted

Double-weighted statement

Reserve for a double-weighted output

Non-English

Yes

English abstract

The insurrection known in historiography as “Balaiada” opposed military draft and arbitrary treatment by police chiefs. Thousands of peasants, cowboys and even slaves resisted imperial military forces in the Brazilian provinces of Maranhão and Piauí during the years 1838-41. The article examines the political creed of the rebels, as it emerges from their proclamations, correspondence among themselves and letters to the officers of legality. These sources demonstrate the significance of popular liberalism in northern Brazil. Rebel beliefs re-appropriated elite liberalism and combined it with elements of regional popular culture, in particular popular Catholicism, which accentuated its democratizing and egalitarian characteristics.