Prophets of rebellion : millenarian protest movements against the European colonial order /

Prophets of rebellion : millenarian protest movements against the European colonial order /

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Author / Creator:Adas, Michael, 1943-
Imprint:Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1979.
Description:xxvii, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Colonies -- Case studies.
Indigenous peoples -- Case studies.
Government, Resistance to -- Case studies.
Millennialism -- Case studies.
Colonies.
Indigenous peoples.
Millennialism.
Protest movements.
Case studies.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/264275
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ISBN:0807813532
Notes:Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 219-234.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the paperback edition
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Contexts for five rebellions
  • 2. Causes for revolt: colonial transformations and relative deprivation
  • 3. An absence of alternatives
  • 4. Prophets and millenarian visions
  • 5. Toward violence: abortive repression and the rise of secondary leaders
  • 6. Mobilisation: symbol and ritual, talisman and sympathetic magic
  • 7. Rebellion, suppression and impact
  • 8. Prophetic rebellion as a type of social protest
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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