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Stringing Together a Nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906–1930
Todd A. Diacon
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Description for Stringing Together a Nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906–1930
Paperback. An analysis of the career of Candido Rondon providing an avenue to deconstruct recent Brazilian historiography on nation building, indigenous people, and state action Num Pages: 248 pages, 23 illus., 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBAH; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5665 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
Focusing on one of the most fascinating and debated figures in the history of modern Brazil, Stringing Together a Nation is the first full-length study of the life and career of Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon (1865–1958) to be published in English. In the early twentieth century, Rondon, a military engineer, led what became known as the Rondon Commission in a massive undertaking: the building of telegraph lines and roads connecting Brazil’s vast interior with its coast. Todd A. Diacon describes how, in stringing together a nation with telegraph wire, Rondon attempted to create a unified community of “Brazilians” from ... Read more
Focusing on one of the most fascinating and debated figures in the history of modern Brazil, Stringing Together a Nation is the first full-length study of the life and career of Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon (1865–1958) to be published in English. In the early twentieth century, Rondon, a military engineer, led what became known as the Rondon Commission in a massive undertaking: the building of telegraph lines and roads connecting Brazil’s vast interior with its coast. Todd A. Diacon describes how, in stringing together a nation with telegraph wire, Rondon attempted to create a unified community of “Brazilians” from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822332497
SKU
V9780822332497
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About Todd A. Diacon
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.
Reviews for Stringing Together a Nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906–1930
“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 ... Read more