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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 Candido 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 a population whose loyalties and identities were much more local and regional in scope. He reveals the work of the Rondon Commission as a crucial exemplar of the issues and intricacies involved in the expansion of central state authority in Brazil and in the construction of a particular kind of Brazilian nation.Using an impressive array of archival and documentary sources, Diacon chronicles the Rondon Commission's arduous construction of telegraph lines across more than eight hundred miles of the Amazon Basin; its exploration, surveying, and mapping of vast areas of northwest Brazil; and its implementation of policies governing relations between the Brazilian state and indigenous groups. He considers the importance of Positivist philosophy to Rondon's thought, and he highlights the Rondon Commission's significant public relations work on behalf of nation-building efforts. He reflects on the discussions-both contemporaneous and historiographical-that have made Rondon such a fundamental and controversial figure in Brazilian cultural history.
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04 février 2004

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9780822385479

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Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
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Stringing Together a People and a Place
 Building the Lonely Line, –
Working and Living on the Lonely Line
The Power of Positivism
Living with Others on the Lonely Line
Selling a Person and a Product: Public Relations and the Rondon Telegraph Commission
The Legacy of the Lonely Line
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Cuiabá–Santo Antonio telegraph line
The telegraph line
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Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon
Telegraph right-of-way
Rondon and officers on the Juruena River
Telegraph right-of-way, probably near Pimenta Bueno station
Roosevelt and Rondon
Rondon and officers with supply wagon
Brazilian and U.S. flags, Rondon-Roosevelt expedition camp in Porto do Campo, Mato Grosso
Roosevelt-Rondon expedition at the headwaters of the River of Doubt
Rondon, Theodore Roosevelt, and members of the Roosevelt-Rondon expedition
Erecting a telegraph pole
Telegraph posthole diggers returning to camp
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Lieutenant Sebastião surveying near the Jamari River
Commission workers
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Rondon in unidentified camp
Unidentified men in camp with Rondon
Raising the flag
Positivist-Indian shrine
Rondon and his wife, Francisca Xavier da Silva Rondon
Rondon with Parecis men and women in front of Utiariti Falls
Rondon distributing presents and clothes to Parecis men, women, and children
Rondon addressing a Nambikwara man
Unidentified telegraph station
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few years ago an anonymous donor established the A Thomas Jefferson Award for creative research at the Uni-versity of Tennessee. My receipt of this generous award dur-ing the first year of its existence freed me from the need to spend time and energy writing grant proposals. Instead, I was able to engage in archival research in Brazil immedi-ately, and my work proceeded quickly and smoothly. Thus I wish to thank, first and foremost, that unnamed individual for this wonderful endowment. For additional funding for earlier parts of my research I also thank the National Endowment for the Humanities (Summer Stipend Program) and the Fulbright Foundation (Lecturing and Research Award). Conducting archival research in Brazil is always a reward-ing experience, due primarily to the staffs of the archives discussed below. These fine professionals are committed to furthering historical research in Brazil. But more than that, the Brazilian archivists with whom I worked became both my friends and advisors; indeed, these days a trip to Rio de Janeiro would not be complete without stopping by to say hello to them. At the Museu Histórico do Exército, located in the Copacabana Fort, Solange Coelho Calvano, Maria Isabel Travassos Romano, Maria Bley da Silveira, Isabel Maria San-son Portela, Maria Lídgia Peçanha Alonso Gonçalves, Ivan Coelho de Sá, and Tenente Gilson César da Silveira Bastos made my work profitable and comfortable. There is no better place to conduct research in Brazil than at the Museu do Índio in Rio de Janeiro. The building and grounds are lovely, but it is the people who make it special.
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