Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations and Maps vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Abbreviations and Acronyms xiii
6. I. Rethinking Thuggery
7. 1. Introduction 3
8. 2. Honest Shadows: Ethnography and Ordinary Tyrants 16
9. 3. Landed Relations, Landowner Identities: Race, Space, Power, and Political Economy 32
10. II. Estate Formations
11. 4. Children of the Magic Fruit: The Making of a Landed Elite, 1850–1920 49
12. 5. Killing Pedro Chulín: Landowners, Revolution, and Refrom, 1920–1962 80
13. 6. The Dead at Golonchán: Cattle, Crisis, and Conflict, 1962–1994 105
14. III. Contours of Quiescence
15. 7. The Invasions of 1994–1998: Estate Agriculture Unglued 133
16. 8. Import-Substitution Dreaming: Producing Landowners' Place in the Nation 158
17. 9. Geographies of Fear, Spaces of Quiescence 184
18. 10. The Agrarian Spiral 208
19. Notes 221
20. Glossary 245
21. Bibliography 247
22. Index 265