Resumen de Neither peddlers nor war: unraveling 180 years of historical literature on Pernambuco’s “Peddlers’ War,” 1710-1711
- español
Este ‘tour’ historiográfico aborda los múltiples significados atribuídos a la ‘Guerra de los Buhoneros’ (1710-1711) de Pernambuco en casi 200 años de literatura histórica. Un recorrido a través de generaciones y paradigmas intelectuales (sean marxistas, liberales, nacionalistas brasileños o regionalistas pernambucanos), demuestra que el período 1710-1711 representó un movimento nativista y quizás republicano contra los portugueses, una fractura entre la burguesia mercantil y la elite agraria, o como un símbolo de la rebeldía histórica de Pernambuco en vista de la opresión de forasteros. En el presente trabajo se analizan las observaciones veteranas de los historiadores del mundo colonial fuera del Brasil, incluso una tesis inédita norteamericana, de 1957, revelando cuánto podemos aprender sobre Pernambuco y su vida intelectual y política a través de debates sobre los eventos de 1710-1711.
- English
This historiographical “tour” essay examines the many meanings that have been ascribed to Pernambuco’s “Peddlers’ War” (1710-1711) in nearly 200 years of historical literature. Looking across generations and intellectual paradigms (Marxist, liberal, Brazilian nationalist, and Pernambucan regionalist), it shows that 1710-1711 has stood for a nativist and perhaps a republican movement against the Portuguese, a fracturing between the mercantile bourgeoisie and planter class, or as a symbol of Pernambuco’s historic rebelliousness in the wake of oppression by outsiders. Focusing primarily on Pernambucan debates, it also examines the seasoned, if brief, reflections on the event by colonial historians beyond Brazil—including an unpublished 1957 US dissertation—that suggests how much the discussion of the events of 1710-1711 has to tell us about shifting currents of intellectual and political life in Pernambuco.
