Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship (Pitt Latin American Series) - Softcover

Buch 41 von 76: Pitt Latin American Series

Castilho, Celso Thomas

 
9780822964124: Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship (Pitt Latin American Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0822964120 ISBN 13: 9780822964124
Verlag: UNIV OF PITTSBURGH PR, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Winner, 2018 AHA Bolton Prize (best book on Latin American History)
Winner, 2018 AHA/CLAH Dean Prize (best book on Brazilian History)

Celso Thomas Castilho offers original perspectives on the political upheaval surrounding the process of slave emancipation in postcolonial Brazil. He shows how the abolition debates in Pernambuco transformed the practices of political citizenship and marked the first instance of a mass national political mobilization. In addition, he presents new findings on the scope and scale of the opposing abolitionist and sugar planters’ mobilizations in the Brazilian northeast. The book highlights the extensive interactions between enslaved and free people in the construction of abolitionism, and reveals how Brazil’s first social movement reinvented discourses about race and nation, leading to the passage of the abolition law in 1888. It also documents the previously ignored counter-mobilizations led by the landed elite, who saw the rise of abolitionism as a political contestation and threat to their livelihood.
            Overall, this study illuminates how disputes over control of emancipation also entailed disputes over the boundaries of the political arena and connects the history of abolition to the history of Brazilian democracy. It offers fresh perspectives on Brazilian political history and on Brazil’s place within comparative discussions on slavery and emancipation.

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Celso Thomas Castilho is assistant professor of history at Vanderbilt University.

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Verlag
UNIV OF PITTSBURGH PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0822964120
ISBN 13 
9780822964124
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
280
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