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Frontier Theory as an Explanatory Tool for Brazilian History: A Viable Construct?

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The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil's Eastern Indians, 1750–1830. By LangfurHal. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2006. Pp. 432. $65.00 cloth.

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Jane M. Rausch*
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © 2008 by the University of Texas Press

References

1. Alistair Hennessy, The Frontier in Latin American History (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1978), 98.

2. Hennessy, 3.