Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. LIST OF MAPS AND FIGURES xi
5. LIST OF TABLES xiii
6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv
7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOR PHOTOGRAPHS xix
8. NOTE ON PORTUGUESE USAGE AND STYLE xxi
9. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xxv
10. Introduction 1
11. PART ONE: POLITICAL ECONOMY
12. Chapter I. Land and Population 39
13. Chapter II. The Agrarian Oligarchy and Its Export Economy in an Era of Change, 1889-1922 81
14. PART TWO. Politics and Parentela
15. Chapter III. The Parentela in Empire and Republic 127
16. Chapter IV. The Politics of Parentela in the Era of the Oligarchies 174
17. PART THREE. Oligarchical Politics
18. Chapter V. The Formative Decade: The Republican Nineties 229
19. Chapter VI. From "Anarchy" to "Order," 1900-1912 271
20. Chapter VII. The Pessoas in Power: The Years of "Order," 1912-1924 308
21. Chapter VIII. The Oligarchy Moves toward Crisis, 1924-1930 349
22. Conclusion: The Demise of Family-Based Politics 408
23. APPENDIXES 425
24. GLOSSARY OF PORTUGUESE TERMS 447
25. GLOSSARY OF BRAZILIAN KINSHIP TERMS 453
26. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 457
27. INDEX 475