Rebellion in the Backlands

Name: Rebellion in the Backlands
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ISBN: 9780226124445

ISBN-10: 0226124444

ISBN-13: 9780226124445

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Euclides da Cunha, Samuel Putnam

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Euclides da Cunha's classic account of the brutal campaigns against religious mystic Antonio Conselheiro has been called the Bible of Brazilian nationality. "Euclides da Cunha went on the campaigns [against Conselheiro] as a journalist and what he returned with and published in 1902 is still unsurpassed in Latin American literature. Cunha is a talent as grand, spacious, entangled with knowledge, curiosity, and bafflement as the country itself. . . . On every page there is a heart of idea, speculation, dramatic observation that tells of a creative mission undertaken, the identity of the nation, and also the creation of a pure and eloquent prose style."--Elizabeth Hardwick, Bartleby in…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/15/1957
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 562
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English



Maps Preliminary Note, by the Author



The Backlands



The Land



Man



The Rebellion



The Conflict Begins



The Crossing of




The Moreira Cesar Expedition



The Fourth Expedition



The Savaget Column



The Assault



New Phase of the Struggle



Last Days Principal Events of the Canudos Campaign


Author's Notes to the Third Edition


Bibliography of the Works of



Acknowledgments and Editorial


Note Glossaries List of Botanical and Zoological Terms


List of Terms in Regional Use Indexes


Index of Names


Index of Subjects