Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.
Introduction. -- Honest shadows : ethnography and ordinary tyrants. -- Landed relations, landowner identities : race, space, power, and political economy. -- Children of the magic fruit : the making of a landed elite, 1850-1920. -- Killing Pedro Chuli*n : landowners, revolution, and reform, 1920-1962. -- The dead at Goloncha*n : cattle, crisis, and conflict, 1962-1994. -- The invasions of 1994-1998 : estate agriculture unglued. -- Import-substitution dreaming : producing landowners' place in the nation. -- Geographies of fear, spaces of quiescence. -- The agrarian spiral.