Todd A. Diacon

I had to read this for my History of Brazil class.

Diacon's attempts to establish the facts of the Contestado Rebellion and its causes, in spite of the lack of sources, is praiseworthy, even brave. So is his honesty about just how sparse his evidence is. After all, if historians only developed theories about events they had plenty of evidence for, history would be a lot smaller and a lot less interesting. Diacon's theories, particularly about co-godparenthood, are food for thought, but in the end, not entirely convincing. His sources are simply too thin and stretched too far to hold the conclusions he makes.… (meer)