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| Preface | |
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| Publisher's Note / About the Authors | |
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| Map of Brazil | |
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| Introduction: To Inherit the Earth | |
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| The Frustrating Trap of Inequality | |
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| A Way Out of the Trap? | |
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| History's Geography: The Organization of This Book | |
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| Chronology: Some Important Dates in Brazilian and MST History | |
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| Glossary: Acronyms and Portuguese Terms | |
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| Fulfilling a Promise: The Beginnings of the Landless Movement in Rio Grande Do Sul | |
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| Decades of Dictatorship: Repression, Religion and Resistance | |
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| The Beginnings of Agrarian Reform in Rio Grande do Sul | |
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| Life in the Camp: Hardship and Community | |
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| New Thought, New Speech, New Action: The Grass Roots of Political Change | |
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| The Church Brokers a Respite | |
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| Victory for the Settlers and the Formation of the MST | |
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| Sarandi: The Challenges of Settlement | |
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| "The Land Is Only the First Step": Pernambuco and Northeastern Brazil | |
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| Agrarian Reform and the New Democracy | |
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| The Northeast of Brazil: Legacies of Poverty and Impunity | |
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| A History of Resistance: Quilombos, Canudos and the Peasant Leagues | |
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| The MST and the Struggle for Land in Pernambuco | |
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| "The Land Is Only the Beginning": Facing the Hurdles of Sustainable Reform | |
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| Small-Scale Farmers in a Large-Scale Landscape: The Challenges of Catalunha and Ouro Verde | |
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| Agrarian Reform in the Northeast: A Balance Sheet | |
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| Beyond the Lure of the Amazon | |
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| The Amazon: What's at Stake? Who Decides | |
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| The Transformation of the Amazon | |
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| Visiting MST Settlements and the Carajas Mine | |
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| Where the MST Stands in the Amazon, and Who Stands with It | |
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| Making a Life on Palmares II | |
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| The Dialectic of Amazonian Development | |
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| Assessing the MST | |
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| Is Life Better on the Settlements? | |
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| "Agrarian Reform Light": Assessing the Government's Approach | |
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| Land Reform Around the World: The Legacies of US Policy and Influence | |
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| Avoiding the Dependency Trap | |
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| Agrarian Reform, Legal Impunity and the Future of Land and Forests | |
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| The MST and Revolution | |
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| The Creation of Citizenship and the Fight Against "Politics as Usual" | |
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| The MST and Civil Society in Brazil | |
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| The MST in the International Context | |
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| Children of the MST and the Future | |
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| Postscript: The Lula Government | |
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| Notes | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |