Warrior Queens of the Silver Screen

Abstract

Saba insists. Saba’s overreach should not, however, detract from American Mirror’s impressive strengths. The book is exhaustingly researched, with material from national and local archives in Brazil and theUnited States. Saba’s central argument, thatmany elite reformers chose capitalism over a more egalitarian post-emancipation society, is undoubtedly correct, as are his perceptive insights on the transformation of capitalism in the second half of the nineteenth century.