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Widespread violence, legal chicanery and ruthless profiteering have come to characterise the expansion of the agricultural frontier in Brazil. With the advance of this frontier, the pioneering peasants, on the one hand, and large landowners and large economic enterprise, on the other, have become locked in an increasingly bitter struggle for land. In his book, Joe Foweraker draws on extensive empirical research to demonstrate the dimensions and dynamics of the struggle. It is his contention that the process can only be understood in relation to the patterns of economic accumulation in the national society and to the typical forms of political intervention on the frontier. In this way the argument moves beyond descriptive, moral or realpolitik explanations of the political violence and bureaucratic malpractice on the frontier, and integrates these elements into a theoretical account of accumulation and class struggle on the frontier, and of the characteristic mediations of this struggle.

Land settlement --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Colonisation intérieure --- Vie des pionniers --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- Brésil. --- -Land settlement --- -Resettlement --- Settlement of land --- Colonies --- Land use, Rural --- Human settlements --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Pioneers --- -History --- -Social aspects --- -Frontier and pioneer life --- Colonisation intérieure --- Brésil. --- Resettlement --- History --- Earth Sciences --- Geography --- Land settlement - Social aspects - Brazil --- Frontier and pioneer life - Brazil