Auteur: Beattie Peter M. Beattie

Throughout the nineteenth century the idyllic island of Fernando de Noronha, which lies two hundred miles off Brazil’s northeastern coast, was home to Brazil’s largest forced labor penal colony. In P …

In The Tribute of Blood Peter M. Beattie analyzes the transformation of army recruitment and service in Brazil between 1864 and 1945, using this history of common soldiers to examine nation building …