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- Title
- Backlands : the Canudos Campaign / Euclides da Cunha ; translated by Elizabeth Lowe ; introduction by Ilan Stavans.
- Author
- Cunha, Euclides da, 1866-1909
- Publication
- New York : Penguin Books 2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | F2537 .C97513 2010 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xl, 513 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- Written by a former army lieutenant, civil engineer, and journalist, Backlands is Euclides da Cunha's vivid and poignant portrayal of Brazil's infamous War of Canudos. The deadliest civil war in Brazilian history, the conflict during the 1890s was between the government and the village of Canudos in the northeastern state of Bahia, which had been settled by 30,000 followers of the religious zealot Antonio Conselheiro. Far from just an objective retelling, da Cunha's story shows both the significance of this event and the complexities of Brazilian society. -- Back cover.
- Series Statement
- Penguin classics
- Uniform Title
- Penguin classics
- Sertões. English
- Alternative Title
- Sertões.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Translated from Portuguese.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Chronology -- Timetable: The Canudos Campaign -- Backlands : the Canudos Campaign -- pt. 1. The land -- Man -- pt. 2. The battle -- The battle begins -- Trapped at Mount Cambaio -- The Moreira César expedition -- The fourth expedition -- A new phase of the battle -- Last days.
- ISBN
- 9780143106074
- 0143106074
- LCCN
- ^^2009051135
- OCLC
- 468975042
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library