Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. INTRODUCTION Frederico Freitas and Jacob Blanc 1
4. PART I THE KNOWLEDGE INTERIOR
5. CHAPTER 1 INDIGENOUS SPIES AND SURVEILLANCE IN LATE COLONIAL BRAZIL 21
6. CHAPTER 2 IMAGINED SERTÕES The Quest for Silver, Indigenous Conquest, and the Circulation of Knowledge in the Bahian Interior 37
7. CHAPTER 3 THE INTERIOR AS BORDERLANDS The Campanha at the Edge of Empire 57
8. CHAPTER 4 SÃO PAULO AND ITS INTERIOR IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES 77
9. PART II THE NATIONAL INTERIOR
10. CHAPTER 5 MORAL GROUNDS Plants and Plans for Imperial Brazil’s Backlands 101
11. CHAPTER 6 THE ROMANTIC SERTÕES 123
12. CHAPTER 7 CHARTING THE PLANALTO CENTRAL The Quest for a New Capital and the Opening of the Brazilian Interior in the 1890s 145
13. PART III THE ROVING INTERIOR
14. CHAPTER 8 THE WANDERING BORORO OF CENTRAL BRAZIL IN PHOTO ALBUMS AND THE 1908 NATIONAL EXHIBITION IN RIO DE JANEIRO 171
15. CHAPTER 9 A CARTOGRAPHIC PICARESQUE The Prestes Column and the Symbolism of Brazil’s Interior 197
16. PART IV THE TRANSFORMED INTERIOR
17. CHAPTER 10 THE MARCH TOWARD THE HINTERLAND The West as Geographic Fiction and the Conquering of Central Brazil 223
18. CHAPTER 11 FROM BOI GORDO TO BIOFUEL Western São Paulo and the Transformation of Rural Brazil 247
19. EPILOGUE: THE INTERIOR AND THE SCALE OF HISTORY 271
20. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 289
21. CONTRIBUTORS 291
22. INDEX 295