Art Systems: Brazil and the 1970s by Elena Shtromberg (review)
showing the role biologists (and the museum) played as instruments in this nation building process. Readers should be aware that Duarte has contributed significantly to the historiography of environmental history, although the link between that work and this book is not very apparent. The focus here is not on environmental history—as some readers may assume—but on politics and the use of science for the fulfillment of specific governmental objectives.