The Struggle for Land : A Political Economy of the Pioneer Frontier in Brazil from 1930 to the Present Day (Paperback)

List of maps; Preface; Glossary of acronyms and abbreviations used in the text; Glossary of words and phrases in Portuguese used in the text; Part I. The Pioneer Frontier: 1. The pioneer frontier; political violence and the peasantry; 2. The process and stages of occupation of land on the frontier; 3. Frontier expansion and the national economy; Part II. Political Mediation: 4. The legal history of the land on the frontier and the question of dual authority; 5. Law and lawlessness on the frontier and the problem of bureaucratic inertia; 6. Private and public colonisation of the frontier and the pattern of bureaucratic entrepreneurship; 7. The contemporary alliance of state and capital on the frontier and the contradictions within the State; Part III. Accumulation and Authoritarianism: 8. Primitive accumulation and violence on the frontier; 9. The frontier and the reproduction of authoritarian capitalism; 10. The frontier and the formation of the Brazilian State; Bibliography; Index.