Tribute of Blood

Peter M. Beattie is Assistant Professor of History at Michigan State University.

• Illustrations Acknowledgments Author’s Note Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction: Soldiers of Misfortune, Soldiers by Lot I. Impressment, Penal Transportation, Defense, and Politics, 1549-1905 1. “Nabbing Time”: The Heritage of Portugal’s Gunpowder Empire, 1549-1905 2. Raising the “Pagan Rabble”: Wartime Impressment and the Crisis of National Recruitment, 1864-1870 3. The “Law of the Minotaur”? Postwar Reformism and the Recruitment of Law, 1870-1874 4. Whipping a Dead Letter: The 1874 Recruitment Law under the Empire, 1874-1889 5. “And One Calls This Misery a Republic?”: The 1874 Recruitment Law under the Early Republic, 1889-1905 II. Soldiers, Their Lives, and the Army’s Institutional Roles, 1850-1919 6. The Troop Trade and the Army as a Protopenal Institution in the Age of Impressment, 1850-1916 7. Brazilian Soldiers and Enlisted Service in the Age of Impressment, 1870-1916 8. Days of Caschaca, Sodomy, and the Lash: Army Crime and Punishment in the Age of Impressment, 1870-1916 III. Implementing Conscription and Reorienting the Army’s Role, 1906 9. “Tightening Screw” or “Admirable Filter”?: The 1908 Obligatory Military Service Law, 1906-1916 10. Making the Barracks a “House” and the Army a “Family”: Assessing the Conscription Lottery, 1916-1945 Conclusions: Army, Masculine Honor, Race, and Nation Appendix A: Military Crime Data Appendix B: Army Recruitment Data Appendix C: Populations of Public Disciplining Institutions Notes Glossary of Portuguese Terms Bibliography Index

“A marvelous and broadly conceived study of great sweep, impressive documentation, and original insight. Beattie shows us how an imaginative study of the military can greatly illuminate issues of masculinity, nationalism, race, social control, and bondage. Its attention to comparative history, its focus on explaining change, and the care and grace of its writing make it something of a model of what institutional histories can achieve.”-James C. Scott, Yale University “This is the most original work on Brazilian social history by a U.S. scholar in the last fifteen years. Events and issues become newly understandable in Peter M. Beattie’s presentation of military recruitment as a direct measure of state-building in Brazil.”-Dain Borges, University of California, San Diego