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Chapters examining such topics as state power, commerce, agriculture, and ranching lead repeatedly to dashed illusions and projects postponed.

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Officials bowed to the power of local potentates whose influence, while enduring, rarely extended beyond the limits of their sizeable farms and ranches. Although Indian attacks and banditry periodically disrupted daily life, this frontier was not an especially violent one, certainly never violent enough to threaten even the scant control the state exercised. The limited reach of official clout meant that such potential antagonists found little need to mount serious challenges to constituted authority.

Frontier Goias, 1822-1889

A perennial plan to develop trade and expand settlement along the Araguaia River could serve as a metaphor for provincial development. Agriculture and ranching failed to yield the profits necessary for economic dynamism. Few peasant producers owned the small plots of land on which they cultivated subsistence crops. Transportation expenses hampered attempts to tap into distant markets for foodstuffs.

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The author argues that the province of Goiás, although physically in the center of Brazil, was effectively Cover of Frontier Goiás, by David McCreery. This book examines the development of the state, the nation, and the economy on the far western frontier of Brazil during the period of the Brazilian Empire.

Slave labor declined over the course of the century, and rudimentary agricultural techniques persisted out of practical necessity rather than, as contemporary critics alleged, a regional proclivity for backwardness, ignorance, or apathy. In this sluggish milieu, with abundant land and scarce labor, stock raising emerged as the great hope to restore the lost prosperity of the mining era. In this realm too, local markets could barely sustain innovation and expansion, although halting modernization occurred in the south of the province.

To his credit, the McCreery persisted in the face of such historical inertia. His discussion of agriculture helps clarify, for instance, the predicaments of agregados , omnipresent free dependants who lived on large holdings throughout rural Brazil.

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Asia's Reckoning Richard McGregor. Flap copy This book examines the development of the state, the nation, and the economy on the far western frontier of Brazil during the period of the Brazilian Empire. Table of contents fmct: Glossary Notes Bibliography show more. Review quote "Frontier Goias is a timely study of life on the margins and an important contribution to the study of Brazilian regional history, a field that is now developing rapidly throughout the country.