The Interior

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Frederico Freitas and Jacob Blanc

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A new history of Brazil told through the lens of the often-overlooked interior regions.

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Introduction (Frederico Freitas and Jacob Blanc) Part I. The Knowledge Interior

• Chapter 1. Indigenous Spies and Surveillance in Late Colonial Brazil (Heather F. Roller)
• Chapter 2. Imagined Sertões: The Quest for Silver, Indigenous Conquest, and the Circulation of Knowledge in the Bahian Interior (Judy Bieber)
• Chapter 3. The Interior as Borderlands: The Campanha at the Edge of Empire (Fabrício Prado)

• Chapter 4. São Paulo and Its Interior in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Carlos de Almeida Prado Bacellar) Part II. The National Interior

• Chapter 5. Moral Grounds: Plants and Plans for Imperial Brazil’s Backlands (Seth Garfield)
• Chapter 6. The Romantic Sertões (Lúcia Sá)

• Chapter 7. Charting the Planalto Central: The Quest for a New Capital and the Opening of the Brazilian Interior in the 1890s (Frederico Freitas) Part III. The Roving Interior

• Chapter 8. The Wandering Bororo of Central Brazil in Photo Albums and the 1908 National Exhibition in Rio de Janeiro (Antonio Luigi Negro)

• Chapter 9. A Cartographic Picaresque: The Prestes Column and the Symbolism of Brazil’s Interior (Jacob Blanc) Part IV. The Transformed Interior

• Chapter 10. The March toward the Hinterland: The West as Geographic Fiction and the Conquering of Central Brazil (Sandro Dutra e Silva)
• Chapter 11. From Boi Gordo to Biofuel: Western São Paulo and the Transformation of Rural Brazil (Thomas D. Rogers) Epilogue. The Interior and the Scale of History (Susanna Hecht) Acknowledgments Contributors Index