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Informationen zum Autor By Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida Klappentext This work brings together information on the physical, demographic, institutional, and economic dimensions of directed settlement in the Amazon Basin in the 1970s and raises significant questions about the gains and losses of the settlers, the reasons for Zusammenfassung This work brings together information on the physical, demographic, institutional, and economic dimensions of directed settlement in the Amazon Basin in the 1970s and raises significant questions about the gains and losses of the settlers, the reasons for Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsPart 1: The Dimensions of the Frontier 1. The Decade of Colonization2. Rural Frontier and Urban Frontier3. Occupation and Availability of Land in the Amazon4. Agricultural Suitability of Amazon Soils5. The Closing FrontierPart 2: The Frontier and the State 6. The Role of the Brazilian State on the Amazon Frontier7. Spatial Homogenization of the Amazon8. Directed Settlement9. Complementing Institutions10. The Cost of Directed ColonizationPart 3: The Frontier and the Market 11. The Expansion of the Market12. The Economic Dynamic of Colonization13. The Appropriation of Agricultural Surplus14. Colonists’ Market Response15. Frontier MerchantsPart 4: The Colonists 16. The Appropriation of Income in Directed Colonization17. Costs and Benefits18. Market Segmentation19. Agricultural Strategies20. Differentiation on the Frontier21. Itinerancy and Adaptation to the Amazon22. Colonization and Agrarian Reform: The Current Debate23. Postscript: The Many Dimensions of the Amazon FrontierGlossaryBibliographyIndex
