Heather F. Roller is Assistant Professor of History at Colgate University.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
1. From Missions to Towns: A Spatial History of Colonial Amazonian Settlement
2. Forest Collecting Expeditions and the Pursuit of Opportunities in the Sertã o
3. Searching for "New People"
4. "The Indians of This Town Ebb and Flow": Absentee Movements Within the Colonial Sphere
5. Defining Indians and Vagrants
6. The Struggle for Autonomy in the Early Nineteenth Century
Conclusion