The Interior
328 pages, 6 x 9
16 maps, 16 b&w photos
Hardcover
Release Date:07 Jan 2025
ISBN:9781477330371
The Interior
Recentering Brazilian History
Edited by Frederico Freitas and Jacob Blanc
University of Texas Press
A new history of Brazil told through the lens of the often-overlooked interior regions.
- 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
