Anatomy of the Amazon gold rush ([St. Antony's/Macmillan series]) - Hardcover

Cleary, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333514734 ISBN 13: 9780333514733

Publisher: Macmillan in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford, 1990

Synopsis

In 1979 this century's largest gold rush began in the Brazilian Amazon and has continued unabated ever since, despite attempts by governments and mining companies to control it. It involves hundreds of thousands of miners in an informal sector industry which produces over a billion dollar's worth of gold annually, and has become famous - or notorious - well beyond Brazil. This book looks at the Amazon gold rush without sensationalizing it, at the politics and economics of gold in Brazil, and at the implications of the gold rush for Amazonia and its people.

About this title

About the Author:

David Cleary is a research fellow in the Department of Business Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He lived in the Brazilian Amazon for two years while doing research for his PhD. in social anthropology.

Review:

"Cleary has produced a marvelous book on illegal gold mining activities in Brazil's Amazon."—Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0333514734
• ISBN 13: 9780333514733
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 245