The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864-1945

Contents
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, 1549–1864
	2. Raising the ‘‘Pagan Rabble’’: Wartime Impressment and the Crisis of Traditional Recruitment, 1864–1870
	3. The ‘‘Law of the Minotaur’’? Postwar Reformism and the Recruitment 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, 1850–1916
	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 Cachaça,  Sodomy, and the Lash: Army Crime and Punishment in the Age of Impressment, 1870–1916
III Implementing Conscription and Reorienting the Army’s Role, 1906–1945
	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