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Peasants, Prophets, and the Power of a Millenarian Vision in Twentieth-Century Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Todd A. Diacon
Todd A. Diacon
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University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Flood lights illuminated the southern Brazilian night as thousands of railroad workers struggled to meet their daily trace construction quotas. Brazil Railway Company foremen shouted their orders so as to be heard above the din of massive steam-powered earth movers. These machines, a novelty for the region in 1910, were the North American-owned company's newest ally in its push to meet the rapidly approaching construction deadline. On December 17, 1910, a gayly decorated train crossed the Santa Catarina-Rio Grande do Sul border, thereby inaugurating Brazil's newest railroad line. The company had succeeded in connecting the agricultural south with Brazil's rising industrial star, the state of São Paulo.

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People, Power, and Revolution
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , July 1990 , pp. 488 - 514
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1990

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