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

Bunker, Stephen G.

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9780252011214: Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 025201121X ISBN 13: 9780252011214
Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1985

Synopsis

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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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Publication date
1985
Language
English
ISBN 10 
025201121X
ISBN 13 
9780252011214
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
279
Rating
  • 4.36 out of 5 stars
    11 ratings by Goodreads

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