Todd A Diacon

Stringing Together a Nation

Cândido Mariano Da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906-1930

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Produktbeschreibung

This analysis of the career of Candido Rondon, an army officer who founded and directed Brazil's Indian Protection Service, provides an avenue to deconstruct recent Brazilian historiography on nation building, indigenous people, and state action.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780822332107
• ISBN-10: 0822332108
• Artikelnr.: 20989577

Autorenporträt

Todd A. Diacon is Head of the History Department of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality: Brazil’s Contestado Rebellion, 1912–1916, published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Stringing Togeth a People and Place 9
2. Building the Lonely Line, 1907-1915 19
3. Working and Living on the Lonely Line 53
4. The Power of Positivism 79
5. Living with Others on the Lonely Line 101
6. Selling a Person and a Product: Public Relations and the Rondon
Telegraph Commission 131
7. The Legacy of the Lonely Line 155
Notes 163
Bibliography 207
Index 225