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.