The Tribute of Blood

by Beattie, Peter M.; Mignolo, Walter D.; Silverblatt, Irene; Sald & iacute; var-hull, Sonia

• ISBN13: 9780822327332
• ISBN10: 0822327333
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"This is the most original work on Brazilian social history by a U.S. scholar in the last fifteen years. Events and issues become newly understandable in Peter M. Beattie's presentation of military recruitment as a direct measure of state-building in Brazil."--Dain Borges, University of California, San Diego

Author Biography

Peter Beattie is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Michigan State University.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
Author's Note	xix
Abbreviations and Acronyms	xxiii
Introduction: Soldiers of Misfortune, Soldiers by Lot	1	(14)
I Impressment, Penal Transportation, Defense, and Politics, 1549-1905	15	(108)
``Nabbing Time'': The Heritage of Portugal's Gunpowder Empire, 1549-1864	17	(21)
Raising the ``Pagan Rabble'': Wartime Impressment and the Crisis of Traditional Recruitment, 1864-1870	38	(26)
The ``Law of the Minotaur?'' Postwar Reformism and the Recruitment Law, 1870-1874	64	(17)
Whipping a Dead Letter: The 1874 Recruitment Law under the Empire, 1874-1889	81	(18)
``And One Calls This Misery a Republic?'': The 1874 Recruitment Law under the Early Republic, 1889-1905	99	(24)
II Soldiers, Their Lives, and the Army's Institutional Roles, 1850-1916	123	(82)
The Troop Trade and the Army as a Protopenal Institution in the Age of Impressment, 1850-1916	125	(27)
Brazilian Soldiers and Enlisted Service in the Age of Impressment, 1870-1916	152	(25)
Days of Cachaca, Sodomy, and the Lash: Army Crime and Punishment in the Age of Impressment, 1870-1916	177	(28)
III Implementing Conscription and Reorienting the Army's Role, 1906-1945	205	(63)
``Tightening Screw'' or ``Admirable Filter''?: The 1908 Obligatory Military Service Law, 1906-1916	207	(31)
Making the Barracks a ``House'' and the Army a ``Family'': Assessing the Conscription Lottery, 1916-1945	238	(30)
Conclusions: Army, Masculine Honor, Race, and Nation	268	(17)
Appendix A: Military Crime Data	285	(6)
Appendix B: Army Recruitment Data	291	(4)
Appendix C: Populations of Public Disciplining Institutions	295	(2)
Notes	297	(48)
Glossary of Portuguese Terms	345	(4)
Bibliography	349	(26)
Index	375