1. Introduction (Frederico Freitas and Jacob Blanc)
2. 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)
3. 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)
4. 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)
5. 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)
6. Epilogue. The Interior and the Scale of History (Susanna Hecht)
7. Acknowledgments
8. Contributors
9. Index
