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

Stephen G. Bunker

ISBN 10: 0226080323 / ISBN 13: 9780226080321

Published by Univ of Chicago Pr, 1988

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1st edition. 296 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Underdeveloping the Amazon Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226080323
• ISBN 13: 9780226080321
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.43 kilograms

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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.

About the Author

Stephen G. Bunker’s works include Underdeveloping the Amazon, published by the University of Chicago Press.