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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465525103321

Autore

Love Joseph LeRoy

Titolo

The Revolt of the Whip [[electronic resource] /] / Joseph L. Love

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8047-8369-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Disciplina

981/.05

Soggetti

Sailors, Black - Brazil - History

Naval discipline - Brazil - History

Race discrimination - Brazil - History

Electronic books.

Brazil History Naval Revolt, 1910

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The marvelous city and the new navy -- The rebellion and its resolution -- The leaders and their motives -- The second revolt and its consequences -- Past and present.

Sommario/riassunto

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 major 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 greater rights-above all the abolition of flogging in the Brazilian navy, the last Western navy to tolerate it. This form of torture was clo