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The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864-1945

The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864-1945

Beattie, Peter M.

Paperback

Series: Latin America Otherwise

General World HistoryOther WarsSouth American History

ISBN10: 0822327430
ISBN13: 9780822327431
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Sep 26 2001
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
In The Tribute of Blood Peter M. Beattie analyzes the transformation of army recruitment and service in Brazil between 1864 and 1945, using this history of common soldiers to examine nation building and the social history of Latin America's largest nation. Tracing the army's reliance on coercive recruitment to fill its lower ranks, Beattie shows how enlisted service became associated with criminality, perversion, and dishonor, as nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Brazilian officials rounded up the dishonorable poor--including petty criminals, vagrants, and sodomites--and forced them to serve as soldiers.

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