The Americas, January 1st, 2006
Stringing Together a Nation: Candida Mariana da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906-1930. By Todd A. Diacon. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 228. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $74.95 cloth; $21.95 paper.
Cândido Rondon (1865-1958) enjoys a legendary reputation for braving the Amazon jungles to build telegraph lines, charting the nation's frontiers, and establishing the Indian Protection Service (SPI in Portuguese) in the early twentieth century. As Diacon's excellent biography makes clear, the real story is much more complicated and his...
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