Contested Frontiers in Amazonia

by Marianne Schmink and Charles H. Wood

Book Overview

Based on 15 years of research in Brazil, this book is an interdisciplinary documentation and analysis of the process of frontier change in one region of the Brazilian Amazon, the southern region of the state of Para. The authors' analysis was based on the idea that what they documented in the field - deforestation, settlement patterns, and the intensity of rural violence, for example - were the outcomes of the competition for resources among social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231076606
• ISBN13: 9780231076609
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 387 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher