Jacob Blanc and Frederico Freitas (eds.), Big Water: The Making of the Borderlands between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay (Tuscon, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2018), pp. xii + 329, $55.00, hb.
Abstract:the intellectuals into exploring what a collective identity beyond the nation-state might mean, rather than the other way around. The argument would also have been strengthened had Preuss engaged more extensively with Leslie Bethell's article, 'Brazil and "Latin America"' (Journal of Latin American Studies, 42: 3, 2010, pp. 457-85), which is mentioned only briefly. Bethell argued that for most of Brazil's history the country's intellectuals and politicians compared themselves first with Europe and then, after … Show more
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