Todd A Diacon
Biographic Data
| ID | 364106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Todd A Diacon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Todd A |
| FAMILY NAME | Diacon |
| SIGNATURE | DIACON T A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Stringing Together a Nation
Stringing Together a Nation
Focusing on one of the most fascinating and debated figures in the history of modern Brazil, Stringing Together a Nation is the first full-length study of the life and career of Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon (1865-1958) to be published in English. In the early twentieth century, Rondon, a military engineer, led what became known as the Rondon Commission in a massive undertaking: the building of telegraph lines and roads connecting Brazil's vast…
Racial Revolutions
Book Review| October 01 2003 Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil; Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937-1988 By Jonathan W. Warren. (Durham, nc: Duke University Press, 2001. xx + 363 pp., illustrations, abbreviations, introduction, notes, glossary,bibliography, index. $21.95 paper.)By Seth Garfield. (Durham, nc: Duke University Press, 2001. xii+ 316 p…
Fear and Memory in the Brazilian Army and Society, 1889-1954
Scholars such as Thomas E. Skidmore and Alfred Stepan have failed, Smallman argues, to acknowledge the Brazilian military’s long history of factionalism and thus have failed to understand how factional battles created the elements of authoritarian rule (authoritarianism, repression, and censorship) that accompanied the 1964 military coup. This neglect results in part from the military’s own success in hiding, through repression and censorship, th…
Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Politics of Indian Protection in Brazil
1University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Secret Dialogues
This is the story of Brazil’s “Bipartite Commission,” which met secretly between 1970 and 1974, during the height of military rule in the country. The Commission, over the course of some 24 meetings, brought together military officials and Catholic Church leaders. The purpose of the meetings was to revitalize a church-military (“cross and sword,” as Serbin puts it) dialogue damaged by military repression and growing social and political activism …
The Machete and the Cross
Book Review| January 01 2000 The Machete and the Cross: Campesino Rebellion in Yucatán By Don E. Dumond. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. xvii + 571 pp., preface, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $57.50 cloth.) Todd A. Diacon Todd A. Diacon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (1): 265–266. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-1-265 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn…
Searching For a Lost Army
The “horseman of hope,” Brazil's “undefeated column”—much is known about the legendary Luis Carlos Prestes and his rebel column's march through thirteen Brazilian states in the 1920s. Indeed, legends are made of such stuff. Roughly one thousand rebellious federal soldiers and state policemen pushed their way through 25,000 kilometers of Brazil's isolated interior. Forced marches day and night helped them elude capture and defeat from late 1924 un…
Treading with our Necks Above Water-But Just Barely
Struggle for the Spirit
Abbreviations. Glossary. Preface. Introduction. Part I: Basistas:. 1. Basista Catholicism: Its Context and Character. 2. Movements of Conservation and Renewal in Modern Catholicism. 3. Vatican II, Medellin and Liberation Theology. 4. Concepts and Usages in the Texts and Speech of the a Basistaa Church. 5. Discourse. 6. Conclusion. Part II: Pentecostals:. 7. The Organizational Dimension of Pentecostalism and Neo--Pentecostalism. 8. The Religious D…
Classes dominantes e hegemonia na República Velha
The Confederados
Bringing the Countryside Back In
Brazil's Contestado Rebellion (1912-1916) pitted 20,000 millenarian rebels against two-thirds of the Brazilian army. A major event in the consolidation of the Brazilian Republic, it serves as an important case study of the dynamics of central state intervention in the Brazilian hinterland. Local notables took advantage of a new, unprecedented central state presence to press for advantages in their local struggles. At the same time, officer experi…
House and Street
Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality
Why 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. Combining 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. Dia…
Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality
Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality; Brazil's Contestado Rebellion, 1912-1916
Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality
Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality
Why 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.Combining 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. Diac…
Down and Out in Rio De Janeiro
The problem with social history, William Taylor noted in 1985, is that its practitioners often fail to explain the lives of women, children, criminals, the urban poor, and others in terms of the larger patterns of socioeconomic change. 1 Specifically, Taylor argued for studies that would analyze "how ordinary people in different places . . . 'lived the big changes' of the rise of capitalism and state formation ...."2 The goal should be to write "…
Peasants, Prophets, and the Power of a Millenarian Vision in Twentieth-Century Brazil
Flood lights illuminated the southern Brazilian night as thousands of railroad workers struggled to meet their daily trace construction quotas. Brazil Railway Company foremen shouted their orders so as to be heard above the din of massive steam-powered earth movers. These machines, a novelty for the region in 1910, were the North American-owned company's newest ally in its push to meet the rapidly approaching construction deadline. On December 17…
Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality
Why 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. Combining 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. Dia…
Stringing Together a Nation
Focusing on one of the most fascinating and debated figures in the history of modern Brazil, Stringing Together a Nation is the first full-length study of the life and career of Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon (1865-1958) to be published in English. In the early twentieth century, Rondon, a military engineer, led what became known as the Rondon Commission in a massive undertaking: the building of telegraph lines and roads connecting Brazil's vast…
Bringing the Countryside Back In
Brazil's Contestado Rebellion (1912-1916) pitted 20,000 millenarian rebels against two-thirds of the Brazilian army. A major event in the consolidation of the Brazilian Republic, it serves as an important case study of the dynamics of central state intervention in the Brazilian hinterland. Local notables took advantage of a new, unprecedented central state presence to press for advantages in their local struggles. At the same time, officer experi…
House and Street
Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality; Brazil's Contestado Rebellion, 1912-1916
Peasants, Prophets, and the Power of a Millenarian Vision in Twentieth-Century Brazil
Flood lights illuminated the southern Brazilian night as thousands of railroad workers struggled to meet their daily trace construction quotas. Brazil Railway Company foremen shouted their orders so as to be heard above the din of massive steam-powered earth movers. These machines, a novelty for the region in 1910, were the North American-owned company's newest ally in its push to meet the rapidly approaching construction deadline. On December 17…
Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Politics of Indian Protection in Brazil
1University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Searching For a Lost Army
The “horseman of hope,” Brazil's “undefeated column”—much is known about the legendary Luis Carlos Prestes and his rebel column's march through thirteen Brazilian states in the 1920s. Indeed, legends are made of such stuff. Roughly one thousand rebellious federal soldiers and state policemen pushed their way through 25,000 kilometers of Brazil's isolated interior. Forced marches day and night helped them elude capture and defeat from late 1924 un…
Down and Out in Rio De Janeiro
The problem with social history, William Taylor noted in 1985, is that its practitioners often fail to explain the lives of women, children, criminals, the urban poor, and others in terms of the larger patterns of socioeconomic change. 1 Specifically, Taylor argued for studies that would analyze "how ordinary people in different places . . . 'lived the big changes' of the rise of capitalism and state formation ...."2 The goal should be to write "…
Down and Out in Rio De Janeiro
The problem with social history, William Taylor noted in 1985, is that its practitioners often fail to explain the lives of women, children, criminals, the urban poor, and others in terms of the larger patterns of socioeconomic change. 1 Specifically, Taylor argued for studies that would analyze "how ordinary people in different places . . . 'lived the big changes' of the rise of capitalism and state formation ...."2 The goal should be to write "…
Peasants, Prophets, and the Power of a Millenarian Vision in Twentieth-Century Brazil
Flood lights illuminated the southern Brazilian night as thousands of railroad workers struggled to meet their daily trace construction quotas. Brazil Railway Company foremen shouted their orders so as to be heard above the din of massive steam-powered earth movers. These machines, a novelty for the region in 1910, were the North American-owned company's newest ally in its push to meet the rapidly approaching construction deadline. On December 17…
Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality
Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality
Why 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.Combining 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. Diac…
Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality; Brazil's Contestado Rebellion, 1912-1916
Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality
Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality
Why 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. Combining 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. Dia…
Bringing the Countryside Back In
Brazil's Contestado Rebellion (1912-1916) pitted 20,000 millenarian rebels against two-thirds of the Brazilian army. A major event in the consolidation of the Brazilian Republic, it serves as an important case study of the dynamics of central state intervention in the Brazilian hinterland. Local notables took advantage of a new, unprecedented central state presence to press for advantages in their local struggles. At the same time, officer experi…
House and Street
The Confederados
Classes dominantes e hegemonia na República Velha
Searching For a Lost Army
The “horseman of hope,” Brazil's “undefeated column”—much is known about the legendary Luis Carlos Prestes and his rebel column's march through thirteen Brazilian states in the 1920s. Indeed, legends are made of such stuff. Roughly one thousand rebellious federal soldiers and state policemen pushed their way through 25,000 kilometers of Brazil's isolated interior. Forced marches day and night helped them elude capture and defeat from late 1924 un…
Treading with our Necks Above Water-But Just Barely
Struggle for the Spirit
Abbreviations. Glossary. Preface. Introduction. Part I: Basistas:. 1. Basista Catholicism: Its Context and Character. 2. Movements of Conservation and Renewal in Modern Catholicism. 3. Vatican II, Medellin and Liberation Theology. 4. Concepts and Usages in the Texts and Speech of the a Basistaa Church. 5. Discourse. 6. Conclusion. Part II: Pentecostals:. 7. The Organizational Dimension of Pentecostalism and Neo--Pentecostalism. 8. The Religious D…
The Machete and the Cross
Book Review| January 01 2000 The Machete and the Cross: Campesino Rebellion in Yucatán By Don E. Dumond. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. xvii + 571 pp., preface, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $57.50 cloth.) Todd A. Diacon Todd A. Diacon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (1): 265–266. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-1-265 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn…
Secret Dialogues
This is the story of Brazil’s “Bipartite Commission,” which met secretly between 1970 and 1974, during the height of military rule in the country. The Commission, over the course of some 24 meetings, brought together military officials and Catholic Church leaders. The purpose of the meetings was to revitalize a church-military (“cross and sword,” as Serbin puts it) dialogue damaged by military repression and growing social and political activism …
Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Politics of Indian Protection in Brazil
1University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Racial Revolutions
Book Review| October 01 2003 Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil; Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937-1988 By Jonathan W. Warren. (Durham, nc: Duke University Press, 2001. xx + 363 pp., illustrations, abbreviations, introduction, notes, glossary,bibliography, index. $21.95 paper.)By Seth Garfield. (Durham, nc: Duke University Press, 2001. xii+ 316 p…
Fear and Memory in the Brazilian Army and Society, 1889-1954
Scholars such as Thomas E. Skidmore and Alfred Stepan have failed, Smallman argues, to acknowledge the Brazilian military’s long history of factionalism and thus have failed to understand how factional battles created the elements of authoritarian rule (authoritarianism, repression, and censorship) that accompanied the 1964 military coup. This neglect results in part from the military’s own success in hiding, through repression and censorship, th…
Stringing Together a Nation
Stringing Together a Nation
Focusing on one of the most fascinating and debated figures in the history of modern Brazil, Stringing Together a Nation is the first full-length study of the life and career of Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon (1865-1958) to be published in English. In the early twentieth century, Rondon, a military engineer, led what became known as the Rondon Commission in a massive undertaking: the building of telegraph lines and roads connecting Brazil's vast…
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