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A new history of Brazil told through the lens of the often-overlooked interior regions.
In colonial Brazil, observers frequently complained that Portuguese settlers appeared content to remain "clinging to the coastline, like crabs." From their perspective, the vast Brazilian interior seemed like an untapped expanse waiting to be explored and colonized. This divide between a thriving coastal area and a less-developed hinterland has become deeply ingrained in the nation's collective imagination, perpetuating the notion of the interior as a homogeneous, stagnant periphery awaiting the dynamic influence of coastal Brazil.
The Interior challenges these narratives and reexamines the history of Brazil using an "interior history" perspective. This approach aims to reverse the conventional conceptual and geographical boundaries often employed to study Brazilian history, and, by extension, Latin America as a whole. Through the work of twelve leading scholars, the volume highlights how the people and spaces within the interior have played a pivotal role in shaping national identities, politics, the economy, and culture. The Interior goes beyond the traditional boundaries of borderland and frontier history, expands on the current wave of scholarship on regionalism in Brazil, and, by asking new questions about space and nation, provides a fresh perspective on Brazil's history.
Contents
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
