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The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864–1945 (Latin America Otherwise)
Peter M. Beattie
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Description for The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864–1945 (Latin America Otherwise)
paperback. 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. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 416 pages, 15 b&w photos, 8 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5893 x 3963 x 27. Weight in Grams: 640.
In The Tribute of Blood Peter M. Beattie analyzes the transformation of army 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. Tracing the army’s reliance on coercive recruitment to fill its lower ranks, Beattie shows how enlisted service became associated with criminality, perversion, and dishonor, as nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Brazilian officials rounded up the “dishonorable” poor—including petty criminals, vagrants, and “sodomites”—and forced them to serve as soldiers.
Beattie looks through sociological, anthropological, and historical lenses to analyze archival sources ... Read more
In The Tribute of Blood Peter M. Beattie analyzes the transformation of army 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. Tracing the army’s reliance on coercive recruitment to fill its lower ranks, Beattie shows how enlisted service became associated with criminality, perversion, and dishonor, as nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Brazilian officials rounded up the “dishonorable” poor—including petty criminals, vagrants, and “sodomites”—and forced them to serve as soldiers.
Beattie looks through sociological, anthropological, and historical lenses to analyze archival sources ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Series
Latin America Otherwise
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822327431
SKU
V9780822327431
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About Peter M. Beattie
Peter M. Beattie is Assistant Professor of History at Michigan State University.
Reviews for The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864–1945 (Latin America Otherwise)
“A marvelous and broadly conceived study of great sweep, impressive documentation, and original insight. Beattie shows us how an imaginative study of the military can greatly illuminate issues of masculinity, nationalism, race, social control, and bondage. Its attention to comparative history, its focus on explaining change, and the care and grace of its writing make it something of a model ... Read more