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E-book The Prestes Column : An Interior History of Modern Brazil

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The Prestes Column is one of the most famous events in modern Brazilian history. What started out as an unsuccessful rebellion soon morphed into a roving expedition that crisscrossed the country for almost three years. From 1924 to 1927, a group of roughly one thousand army officers and soldiers marched fifteen thousand miles through the vast interior regions of Brazil (map I.1). This is the equivalent of marching from Los Angeles to New York and back again three times. The column began as an uprising in the city of São Paulo in July 1924 that sought to overthrow President Artur Bernardes (1922–26), and it evolved into a circuitous clockwise journey across thirteen states— nearly two­ thirds of the twenty states that made up the entire coun­try at the time. Beginning in the South, the rebels ( later referred to as tenen-tes, or lieutenants) then wound their way up and around the central plains and traversed the northeastern sertão before turning around and retracing their steps. They eventually went into exile in Bolivia in February 1927.The Prestes Column took its name from Luís Carlos Prestes, an army cap­tain from Rio Grande do Sul who, midway through the march, became the column’s unofficial leader. In total, the column fought over 150 battles against much larger and better­ supplied forces of the federal army, state troops, and local militias. The rebellion failed to achieve its original goal of toppling Pres­ident Bernardes; neither were any of its reformist demands met, including the secret ballot, a balance of power among the three branches of govern­ment, and universal primary­ school education. But, after fighting and evad­ing federal and local troops for two and a half years, the rebellion came to be known as the Undefeated Column. Prestes became the leading symbol of the march across Brazil and was lauded as the Knight of Hope.Although the tenente rebellion had not originally aimed to march across the country—it only did so when its route to Rio de Janeiro was blocked—it brought mainstream attention to far­ flung regions of the country. The un­planned march into the “backlands” occurred at a pivotal moment in the formation of modern Brazil: three decades after the end of the Brazilian em­pire in 1889, and three years before the Revolution of 1930 that overthrew the oligarchic First Republic, the Prestes Column took place as new re­gional elites began to challenge the political control held by the states of São Paulo and Minas Gerais.

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980 BLA t

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USA : Duke University Press., 2024

Deskripsi Fisik

313 hlm

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English

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9781478059080

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980

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text

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computer

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online resource

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History of South America

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