Rebellion on the AmazonThe Brazilian Amazon experienced, in the late 1830s, one of Brazil's largest peasant and urban poor insurrections, known as the Cabanagem. Uniquely, rebels succeeded in controlling provincial government and town councils for more than a year. In this first book length study in English, the rebellion is placed in the context of late colonial and early national society and economy. It compares the Cabanagem with contemporaneous Latin American peasant