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Todd A. Diacon. Stringing Together a Nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 19061930. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. xi + 228 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3210-8, $74.95 (cloth); 0-8223-3249-3, $21.95 (paper).
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Biographical studies of military men seldom have much in common with analyses of either economic enterprise or society at large. But the present work by historian Todd A. Diacon clearly deserves a review in this journal under both these headingson the one hand, because it deals with two long-lasting national initiatives related to the beginnings
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