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Book Synopsis The Colonization of the Amazon by : Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida
Download or read book The Colonization of the Amazon written by Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deforestation in the Amazon, one of today's top environmental concerns, began during a period of rapid colonization in the 1970s. Throughout that decade, Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida, a Stanford-trained economist, conducted a complex and massive economic study of what was going on in the Amazon, who was investing what, what was gained, and what it cost in all its aspects. The Colonization of the Amazon, the resulting work, brings together information on the physical, demographic, institutional, and economic dimensions of directed settlement in the Amazon Basin and raises significant questions about the gains and losses of the settlers, the reasons for these outcomes, and the economic rationale behind the devastation of the rainforest. Particularly illuminating is Almeida's exploration of the role of the frontier in Brazil and her distinction between types of migrants and migrations. She concludes that the political costs avoided by not undertaking agrarian reform are being paid by devastating the Amazon, with the conflict between distribution and conservation steadily worsening. Today, it can no longer be circumvented.
Book Synopsis Colonization as Exploitation in the Amazon Rain Forest, 1758-1911 by : Robin Leslie Anderson
Download or read book Colonization as Exploitation in the Amazon Rain Forest, 1758-1911 written by Robin Leslie Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Portuguese and Brazilian attempts to settle the lower Amazon Basin during the 18th and 19th centuries. The text demonstrates the continuity of European colonization from the 18th century to the 20th century and maintains that colonization became a euphemism for exploitation.
Book Synopsis The Colonization of the Amazon by : Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida
Download or read book The Colonization of the Amazon written by Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deforestation in the Amazon, one of today's top environmental concerns, began during a period of rapid colonization in the 1970s. Throughout that decade, Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida, a Stanford-trained economist, conducted a complex and massive economic study of what was going on in the Amazon, who was investing what, what was gained, and what it cost in all its aspects. The Colonization of the Amazon, the resulting work, brings together information on the physical, demographic, institutional, and economic dimensions of directed settlement in the Amazon Basin and raises significant questions about the gains and losses of the settlers, the reasons for these outcomes, and the economic rationale behind the devastation of the rainforest. Particularly illuminating is Almeida's exploration of the role of the frontier in Brazil and her distinction between types of migrants and migrations. She concludes that the political costs avoided by not undertaking agrarian reform are being paid by devastating the Amazon, with the conflict between distribution and conservation steadily worsening. Today, it can no longer be circumvented.
Book Synopsis Change in the Amazon Basin by : John Hemming
Download or read book Change in the Amazon Basin written by John Hemming and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conference report on development projects, environmental dangers, agricultural production and agroforestry by indigenous peoples and historical change in the Amazonia river basin, Brazil - considers the impact of development projects on the living conditions of Andean Indian tribes, negative effects of deforestation, hydrologycal aspects of rainforest in the central Amazon tropical zone, etc.; includes a historical survey of the rubber boom. Bibliography, diagrams, maps, photographs, references, statistical tables.
Book Synopsis Measuring Rates of Colonization in the Amazon Basin by : Robert David Gould
Download or read book Measuring Rates of Colonization in the Amazon Basin written by Robert David Gould and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Migrants To Amazonia by : Judith Lisansky
Download or read book Migrants To Amazonia written by Judith Lisansky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the story of one Amazonian community located along the middle Araguaia River in the northeastern comer of the state of Mato Grosso. It is based on fourteen months of fieldwork in 1976, 1978, and 1979.
Book Synopsis Colonization Policies, Land Occupation and Deforestation in the Amazon Countries by : Charles Curt Mueller
Download or read book Colonization Policies, Land Occupation and Deforestation in the Amazon Countries written by Charles Curt Mueller and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Origins of Cocaine by : Paul Gootenberg
Download or read book The Origins of Cocaine written by Paul Gootenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s, the governments of Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia launched agricultural settlement programs in each country’s vast Amazonian frontier lowlands. Two decades later, these exact same zones had transformed into the centers of the illicit cocaine boom of the Americas. Drawing on concepts from both history and anthropology, The Origins of Cocaine explores how three countries with divergent different mid-century political trajectories ended up with parallel outcomes in illicit frontier economies and cocalero cultures. Bringing together transnational, national, and local analyses, the volume provides an in-depth examination of the deep origins of drug economics in the Americas. As the first substantial study on the shift from agrarian colonization to narcotization, The Origins of Cocaine will appeal to scholars and postgraduate students of Latin American history, anthropology, globalization, development and environmental studies.
Book Synopsis Conjuring Property by : Jeremy M. Campbell
Download or read book Conjuring Property written by Jeremy M. Campbell and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 James M. Blaut Award from the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American GeographersHonorable Mention for the 2016 Book Prize from the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Since the 1960s, when Brazil first encouraged large-scale Amazonian colonization, violence and confusion have often accompanied national policies concerning land reform, corporate colonization, indigenous land rights, environmental protection, and private homesteading. Conjuring Property shows how, in a region that many perceive to be stateless, colonists - from highly capitalized ranchers to landless workers - adopt anticipatory stances while they await future governance intervention regarding land tenure. For Amazonian colonists, property is a dynamic category that becomes salient in the making: it is conjured through papers, appeals to state officials, and the manipulation of landscapes and memories of occupation. This timely study will be of interest to development studies scholars and practitioners, conservation ecologists, geographers, and anthropologists.
Book Synopsis Amazonian Routes by : Heather Roller
Download or read book Amazonian Routes written by Heather Roller and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconstructs the world of eighteenth-century Amazonia to argue that indigenous mobility did not undermine settlement or community. In doing so, it revises longstanding views of native Amazonians as perpetual wanderers, lacking attachment to place and likely to flee at the slightest provocation. Instead, native Amazonians used traditional as well as new, colonial forms of spatial mobility to build enduring communities under the constraints of Portuguese colonialism. Canoeing and trekking through the interior to collect forest products or to contact independent native groups, Indians expanded their social networks, found economic opportunities, and brought new people and resources back to the colonial villages. When they were not participating in these state-sponsored expeditions, many Indians migrated between colonial settlements, seeking to be incorporated as productive members of their chosen communities. Drawing on largely untapped village-level sources, the book shows that mobile people remained attached to their home communities and committed to the preservation of their lands and assets. This argument still matters today, and not just to scholars, as rural communities in the Brazilian Amazon find themselves threatened by powerful outsiders who argue that their mobility invalidates their claims to territory.
Book Synopsis Contested Frontiers in Amazonia by : Marianne Schmink
Download or read book Contested Frontiers in Amazonia written by Marianne Schmink and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1992-06-24 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary analysis of the process of frontier change in one region of the Brazilian Amazon, the southern portion of the state of Pará.
Book Synopsis Rainforest Corridors by : Nigel J. H. Smith
Download or read book Rainforest Corridors written by Nigel J. H. Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.
Book Synopsis The Dilemma Of Amazonian Development by : Emilio F Moran
Download or read book The Dilemma Of Amazonian Development written by Emilio F Moran and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1983-04-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Last New World by : Mac Margolis
Download or read book The Last New World written by Mac Margolis and published by . This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the world's nations conquered their frontiers by the late 19th cent. Now, a hundred years later, Brazil, South America's most dynamic nation, is pursuing its own version of Manifest Destiny, and settlers, cattlemen, drifters, and adventurers have moved into the Amazon at a furious pace. The result is a contradictory landscape of thriving boom towns and forests aflame, where settlers discover new opportunities while squatters, Indians, and rubber tappers battle for their lives, where gold mines devour whole mountains and poison the rivers with mercury. This is a story not only of waste and ruin, but also about those who are trying to pick up the pieces and endure. Illus.
Book Synopsis The Dilemma Of Amazonian Development by : Emilio F Moran
Download or read book The Dilemma Of Amazonian Development written by Emilio F Moran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book--the first to apply the combined approaches of anthropology, geography, ecology, economics, and sociology to the analysis of the Amazon River region and its imminent development--explores the impact of development on Amazonian populations and the results of rural and urban growth strategies. The authors use the methodologies of environmen
Book Synopsis Portuguese colonization of the Amazon region, 1640-1706 by :
Download or read book Portuguese colonization of the Amazon region, 1640-1706 written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation analyses the role played by the Portuguese crown in the development of the Amazon region (north of Portuguese America), during the reigns of Dom João IV, Dom Afonso VI and Dom Pedro II (1640-1706). It addresses the issues of its population, the constitution of its society, the Portuguese settlers' perception of the region and the crown policies as regards the development of economic activities and the problem of labour force.
Book Synopsis Remaking Indigeneity in the Amazon by : Esteban Rozo
Download or read book Remaking Indigeneity in the Amazon written by Esteban Rozo and published by . This book was released on 2023-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on archival and ethnographic work, this book analyses how indigeneity, Christianity, and state-making became intertwined in the Colombian Amazon throughout the 20th century. At the end of the 19th century the state gave Catholic missionaries tutelage over Indigenous groups and their territories, but, in the case of the Colombian Amazon, this tutelage was challenged by evangelical missionaries that arrived in the region in the 1940s with different ideas of civilization and social change. Indigenous conversion to evangelical Christianity caused frictions with other actors, while Indigenous groups perceived conversion to evangelical Christianity as way of leverage with settlers. This book shows how evangelical Christianity shaped new forms of indigeneity that did not coincide entirely with the ideas of civilization or development that Catholic missionaries and the state promoted in the region. Since the 1960s, the state adapted development policies and programs to Indigenous realities and practices, while Indigenous societies appropriated evangelical Christianity in order to navigate the changes brought on by colonization and state-formation. This study demonstrates that not all projects of civilization were the same in Amazonia, nor was missionization of Indigenous groups always subordinate to the state or resource extraction"--
