The Colonels of the Sertão: military commandos, social hierarchies and patronage networks in the backlands of cattle ranching (1674-1799)
Starting from the great appeal raised by the colonel as a powerful local in the Brazilian political imaginary, he studies the militia colonels of the sertões of the captaincies of Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará and Piauí in the period between 1674 and 1799.
