Cambao: The Yoke; The Hidden Face Of Brazil
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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In the fever-pitched landscape of mid-twentieth-century Brazil, where feudal landowners ruled over millions of impoverished peasants with near-absolute authority, one man dared to speak the unspeakable. Cambao: The Yoke is a searing political testament by Francisco Julião, the charismatic lawyer and congressman who founded the Peasant Leagues of Northeast Brazil — a grassroots movement that shook the foundations of Brazilian society and alarmed governments across the Western hemisphere. Part memoir, part manifesto, part social document, the work chronicles the brutal system of cambao — the unpaid labour extracted from landless peasants as rent — and presents the hidden face of a Brazil that tourist brochures and government propaganda steadfastly ignored: one of crushing poverty, systemic violence, and righteous, smouldering resistance. Julião writes with the passionate urgency of a man who has witnessed injustice firsthand, and his prose carries both the moral force of a preacher and the analytical clarity of a political organiser. Published as part of the prestigious Pelican Latin American Library, Cambao stands as an essential primary document of the era of agrarian reform movements that swept Latin America in the 1950s and 1960s, offering an indispensable counterpoint to official histories of the period. For readers interested in land rights, peasant revolt, and the conscience of a continent on the brink of revolution, this work remains as urgent and unsettling today as when it was first written — a voice from the fields that refuses to be silenced.
Author: Francisco Julião
Format: Paperback
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the fever-pitched landscape of mid-twentieth-century Brazil, where feudal landowners ruled over millions of impoverished peasants with near-absolute authority, one man dared to speak the unspeakable. Cambao: The Yoke is a searing political testament by Francisco Julião, the charismatic lawyer and congressman who founded the Peasant Leagues of Northeast Brazil — a grassroots movement that shook the foundations of Brazilian society and alarmed governments across the Western hemisphere. Part memoir, part manifesto, part social document, the work chronicles the brutal system of cambao — the unpaid labour extracted from landless peasants as rent — and presents the hidden face of a Brazil that tourist brochures and government propaganda steadfastly ignored: one of crushing poverty, systemic violence, and righteous, smouldering resistance. Julião writes with the passionate urgency of a man who has witnessed injustice firsthand, and his prose carries both the moral force of a preacher and the analytical clarity of a political organiser. Published as part of the prestigious Pelican Latin American Library, Cambao stands as an essential primary document of the era of agrarian reform movements that swept Latin America in the 1950s and 1960s, offering an indispensable counterpoint to official histories of the period. For readers interested in land rights, peasant revolt, and the conscience of a continent on the brink of revolution, this work remains as urgent and unsettling today as when it was first written — a voice from the fields that refuses to be silenced.