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Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State

Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State

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Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State Paperback - 1990 - 1st Edition

by Bunker, Stephen G

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  • Title Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State
  • Author Bunker, Stephen G
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1990-03-20
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0226080323.G
  • ISBN 9780226080321 / 0226080323
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.03 x 6.09 x 0.64 in (22.94 x 15.47 x 1.63 cm)
  • Category Business / Economics / Finance
  • Library of Congress subjects Amazon River Region - Economic conditions, Amazon River Region - Economic policy
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 87028583
  • Dewey Decimal Code 338.209
  • Quantity available 1

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Underdeveloping the Amazon shows how different extractive economies have periodically enriched various dominant classes but progressively impoverished the entire region by disrupting both the Amazon Basin's ecology and human communities. Contending that traditional models of development based almost exclusively on the European and American experience of industrial production cannot apply to a regional economy founded on extraction, Stephen G. Bunker proposes a new model based on the use and depletion of energy values in natural resources as the key to understanding the disruptive forces at work in the Basin.

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Three months after arriving in Belem, Para, the Amazon's largest and easternmost city, I took a trip around the entire Brazilian portion of that enormous river basin.
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