The Brazilian Peasantry Reexamined
The Implications of the Quebra-Quilo Revolt, 1874-1875
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2837064 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roderick J Barman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 401 |
| Publication date | 1977-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2514023 |
| OpenAlex | W4249197691 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
FROM November 1874 to early January 1875 a popular uprising swept across the interior of the Brazilian Northeast. In countless towns and villages, usually on market day, rioters smashed the quilos, the weights and measures of the newly established metric system. They stopped the marketgoers from paying taxes and destroyed the records in the tax offices, the town hall, and the notarial registers. During their work of destruction, little or no violence was directed against individuals and when their ends were achieved, the rioters quietly went about their ordinary business. Faced with the speed and avalanche invincibility of the uprising, the local authorities could only stand aside in real or feigned neutrality. The presidents of the four provinces involved reacted with something approaching panic. The fabric of authority seemed to have vanished with the forces of barbarism poised to sweep down out of the interior into the provincial capitals. The central government, for whom the revolt was never more than a peripheral nuisance, viewed it as the work of a fanatical mob masterminded by political opponents, in particular by the Jesuits. Before the central government's fairly prompt and efficient counter measures could be implemented, the uprising of the Quebra-Quilos (Smash-the-Kilos), as the revolt was dubbed by contemporaries, had already subsided of its own accord. Plans for punishment and retribu
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
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| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2023 (43) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |