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

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Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State - Bunker, Stephen G, Professor
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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 ...

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Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State 1990, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226080321

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Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State 1985, University of Illinois Press, Urbana-Champaign, IL

ISBN-13: 9780252011214

Hardcover