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In The Prestes Column, Jacob Blanc offers a new interpretation of the legendary rebellion, in which a band of rebel officers and soldiers marched fifteen thousand miles through the vast interior regions of Brazil between 1924 and 1927. Blanc's analysis of the Prestes Column is a showcase of what he calls "interior history." At a pivotal moment in national politics, the long march of the column came to embody the constructed duality of Brazil's interior: a space that was seen by coastal elites as simultaneously backward-in relation to the more modern coast-and dormant, an expanse of untapped potential waiting to be brought into the nation. Drawing on a range of materials, from officers' memoirs and local eyewitness accounts to physical memorials and government archives, Blanc's framework of interior history helps explain the column's initial rise to fame and also its enduring legacy across the twentieth century, offering a new approach for the study of space and nation.
Contents
Note on Terminology and Orthography vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Rebellion and the Backlands 21
2. The Accidental March 32
3. Bandeirantes of Freedom 51
4. Competing Visions of the SertÃo 70
5. Bandeirantes in Bahia 90
6. Mapping a Myth 114
7. Constructing the Knight of Hope 130
8. Political Conflict and the Spatial Legacies of Tenentismo 160
9. Visions of the Future: Culture and Commemoration 185
10. Memory Battles at the Turn of the Century 216
Epilogue: Memory Sites in the Interior 233
Notes 249
Bibliography 275
Index 289
