Todd A Diacon

Stringing Together a Nation

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This amazing story of dedication and persistence elucidates the life project of one of Brazil's major figures of the early twentieth century. Rondon persevered against politicians in Rio as much as against the natural challenges of Brazil's vast interior, stoically suffering the demands of safari-loving Theodore Roosevelt in the meantime. Ironically, the telegraph lines he built, like his Positivist ideological beacon, were both out of date by the time he completed his work."--Thomas Holloway, University of California, Davis

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 158mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780822332497
• ISBN-10: 0822332493
• Artikelnr.: 21782765

Autorenporträt

Todd A. Diacon

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