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

by Stephen G. Bunker

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226080323
• ISBN13: 9780226080321
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"