Business History Review, January 1st, 2004
Stringing Together a Nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of Modern Brazil, 1906-1930. By Todd A. Diacon. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. xi + 228 pp. Photographs, maps, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $21.95. ISBN: cloth 0-822-33210-8; paper 0-822-33249-3.
Not many people have a state named for them, but Cândido Rondon, whose namesake is Rondônia, has been so honored for his contributions to the "construction of modern Brazil." Rondon is credited with (or blamed for) furthering the Brazilian policies that protected and/or encouraged the assim...
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