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

Bunker, Stephen G.

ISBN 10: 0226080323 / ISBN 13: 9780226080321

Published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1990

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Unread book in excellent condition. Spine tight with no creases. Pages clean and unmarked.

'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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226080323
• ISBN 13: 9780226080321
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dimensions: 2.03W x 15.24H x 22.86D centimeters 2.03 centimeters width by 15.24 centimeters height by 22.86 centimeters depth
• Weight: 2 pounds

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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.