{"product_id":"9780822311676","title":"Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality : Brazil's Contestado Rebellion, 1912-1916","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy did a millenarian movement erupt in the Brazilian interior in 1912? Setting out to answer this deceptively simple question, Todd A. Diacon delivers a fascinating account of a culture in crisis.\n\u003cbr\u003eCombining oral history with detailed archival research, Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality depicts a peasant community whose security in economic, social, and religious relations was suddenly disrupted by the intrusion of international capital. Diacon shows how a \"deadly triumvirate\" comprised to foreign capital, state power, and local bosses engineered a land tenure revolution that threatened smallholders' subsistence, sparking rebellion among the Contestado peasants.\n\u003cbr\u003eUnlike most analysis of millenarian movements, Diacon combines a material analysis with a careful exploration of the movement's millenarian ideology to demonstrate how a particular combination of external and internal forces produced a crisis of values in the Contestado society. Such a crisis, Diacon concludes, gave a special power to the millenarian vision that promised not only outward reform, but inner salvation as well. This work offers a significant contribution to the literature of millenarian movements, popular religion, peasant rebellions, and the transition to capitalism in Brazil.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49689279627512,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":60.61,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9780822311676-1.jpg?v=1783618512","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9780822311676","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}