Sertão, República e Nação . (Backlands, Republic and Nation) Original tiitle: Sertão, Republik und Nation, by Dawid Bartelt –376 pp. Book translated from German into Portuguesse by Abi-Sâmara, R. and  Kretschmmer, J.. This book is a result of the doctoral thesis in History of Dawid Bartelt, defended at the Free University of Berlin. The book is a relevant research on “Brazilian Canudos’ War as a discoursive event. It analyses the processes by which the hinterland of northeastern Brazil, the Sertão, became the object of modernising policies in the emerging Brazilian Nation-State of the nineteenth century. São Paulo: EdUSP (University of Sao Paulo Publishing House) / Livraria da Republica, 2009. ISBN: 978-85-314-1068, // 10-85-314-1068-1.