Frontier expansion in Amazonia / edited by Marianne Schmink and Charles H. Wood ; foreword by Charles Wagley.
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TextPublication details: Gainesville : University of Florida Press, �1984.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 502 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- Land settlement -- Amazon River Region -- Congresses
- Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Government relations -- Congresses
- Agricultural ecology -- Amazon River Region -- Congresses
- Investments -- Amazon River Region -- Congresses
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History
- Agricultural ecology
- Indians of South America -- Government relations
- Investments
- Land settlement
- Amazon River Region
- Business & Economics
- Real Estate, Housing & Land Use
- Amazonie -- Conditions �economiques -- Congr�es
- Colonisation int�erieure -- Amazonie -- Congr�es
- Ecologie agricole -- Amazonie -- Congr�es
- Indiens -- Amazonie -- Relations avec l'�etat -- Congr�es
- Investissements -- Amazonie -- Congr�es
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- HD469.A43 F76 1984eb
"Sponsored by the Amazon Research and Training Program, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida."
Selected papers presented at the 31st Latin American Conference, held Feb. 8-11, 1982, at the University of Florida.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Indian policy in Amazonian Ecuador / William T. Vickers -- Indian policy in eastern Peru / Anthony Stocks -- Native peoples of lowland Bolivia / James C. Jones -- Frontier expansion and Indian peoples in the Brazilian Amazon / Alcida R. Ramos -- The politics of cultural survival in Venezuela : beyond indigenismo / Nelly Arvelo-Jimenez -- Demystifying the second conquest / David Maybury-Lewis -- The magnitude of migration to the Brazilian frontier / Charles H. Wood and John Wilson -- Expansion of the agrarian and demographic frontier in the Peruvian selva / Carlos E. Aramburu -- Frontier expansion and retraction in Brazil / Donald R. Sawyer -- Colonization in the Colombian Amazon / Sutti Ortiz -- Colonization in Santa Cruz, Bolivia : a comparative study of the Yapacani and San Julian Projects / Allyn MacLean Stearman -- Colonization and spontaneous settlement in the Ecuadoran Amazon / Jorge Uquillas -- Colonization in the Transamazon and Rondonia / Emilio F. Moran -- Ecological heterogeneity and horizontal zonation of agriculture in the Amazon floodplain / William M. Denevan -- Continuous cropping potential in the upper Amazon Basin / J.J. Nicholaides III, D.E. Bandy, P.A. Sanchez, J.H. Villachica, A.J. Coutu, and C.S. Valverde -- Cattle ranching in Amazonia : political and ecological considerations / Susanna B. Hecht -- National expansion and development policies in the Colombian Amazon / Camilo A. Dominguez -- Strategies of private capital in the Brazilian Amazon / Malori Jose Pompermayer -- Law and social change : the problem of land in the Brazilian Amazon / Roberto Santos -- The state and the militarization of the agrarian question in Brazil / Jose de Souza Martins.
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