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The Revolt of the Whip

Hardcover

Published: 16th May 2012
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This short book brings to life a unique and spectacular set of events in Latin American history. In November 1910, shortly after the inauguration of Brazilian President Hermes da Fonseca, ordinary sailors killed several officers and seized control of several new combat vessels, including two of the most powerful battleships ever produced, and commenced bombing Rio de Janeiro. The mutineers, led by an Afro-Brazilian and mostly black themselves, demanded increased rights?above all the abolition of flogging in the Brazilian navy, the last Western navy to tolerate it. This form of torture was closely associated in the sailors' minds with slavery, which had only been prohibited in Brazil in 1888. These events and the scandals that followed initiated a sustained debate about the role of race and class in Brazilian society and the extent to which Brazil could claim to be a modern nation. The commemoration of the centenary of the mutiny in 2010 saw the country still divided about the meaning of the Revolt of the Whip.

"In this compact book, there is both a big and insightful argument about the stakes in Brazilian politics across the twentieth century and an important and original contribution to understanding the transition in Brazilian politics during the Old Republic."--Dain Borges, University of Chicago

ISBN: 9780804781060
ISBN-10: 0804781060
Audience: General
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 176
Published: 16th May 2012
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.2  x 1.8
Weight (kg): 0.456