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Mark Harris . Rebellion on the Amazon: The Cabanagem, Race, and Popular Culture in the North of Brazil, 1798–1840 . (Cambridge Latin American Studies, number 95.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2010. Pp. xv, 331. $95.00.

2012; Oxford University Press; Volume: 117; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1086/ahr.117.1.261

1937-5239

Júnia Ferreira Furtado,

Colonialism, slavery, and trade

Brazil's Cabanagem rebellion, because of its diverse racial composition and the dramatic aims of the insurgency, is often considered the most radical of the uprisings that occurred during the Regency period (1831–1840). Most studies of the Cabanagem rebellion focus on race and the tensions between poor mixed‐blood mestiços and Indians and wealthier whites. Mark Harris's work presents a much more complex history of this event. He shows that the insurgency itself varied in size and composition over time and that insurgents included mixed‐blood mestiços, Indians, blacks, and also a significant number of white people who were not from the lower class. Harris extends the rebellion's chronology, going back to the Amazon river basin's development in the early eighteenth century. He posits the 1750s as a turning point in the history of the Grão‐Pará captaincy. After the expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal and overseas dominions in 1757, new...