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Interior: Recentering Brazilian History [Kietas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Hardback, 328 pages, aukštis x plotis: 229x152 mm, weight: 454 g, 16 maps, 16 b&w photos
  • Išleidimo metai: 28-Jan-2025
  • Leidėjas: University of Texas Press
  • ISBN-10: 1477330372
  • ISBN-13: 9781477330371
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 328 pages, aukštis x plotis: 229x152 mm, weight: 454 g, 16 maps, 16 b&w photos
  • Išleidimo metai: 28-Jan-2025
  • Leidėjas: University of Texas Press
  • ISBN-10: 1477330372
  • ISBN-13: 9781477330371
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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.



A new history of Brazil told through the lens of the often-overlooked interior regions.

Recenzijos

This volume exquisitely succeeds in presenting many fresh new lenses through which to see these concepts of the frontier in both micro and macro frames. I find this among the best volumes Ive seen in some time, containing the most effective voices in Brazilian history today, both within Brazil and beyond. - Emily Wakild, Boise State University, author of Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico's National Parks, 19101940 Interior history is a framework that emphasizes how noncoastal spaces have been critical to the development of Brazil in everything from politics to culture to economics. Coeditors Freitas and Blanc have cleverly positioned the volume as the opening salvo in a reexamination of national identities globally by centering the Brazilian interior and understanding its broader impact. The twelve chapters, written by a multinational group of authors, are short and well written. Together they focus on themes including real and imagined geographic scales, Indigenous worlds, human and nonhuman lives and actions, and natural and built environments. - Jeffrey Lesser, Emory University, author of Living and Dying in Sćo Paulo: Immigrants, Health, and the Built Environment in Brazil

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
(FabrĶcio Prado)
Chapter
4. SĆo 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 Brazils Backlands
(Seth Garfield)
Chapter
6. The Romantic SertÕes (LŚcia SĮ)
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 Brazils 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 SĆo Paulo and the
Transformation of Rural Brazil (Thomas D. Rogers)


Epilogue. The Interior and the Scale of History (Susanna Hecht)
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
Frederico Freitas is an associate professor of Latin American and digital history at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Nationalizing Nature.

Jacob Blanc is an associate professor of history and international development studies at McGill University and the author of The Prestes Column: An Interior History of Brazil.