| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 502 pages) : illustrations |
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Indian policy in Amazonian Ecuador / William T. Vickers -- Indian policy in eastern Peru / Anthony Stocks -- Native peoples of lowland Bolivia / James C. Jones -- Frontier expansion and Indian peoples in the Brazilian Amazon / Alcida R. Ramos -- The politics of cultural survival in Venezuela : beyond indigenismo / Nelly Arvelo-Jimenez -- Demystifying the second conquest / David Maybury-Lewis -- The magnitude of migration to the Brazilian frontier / Charles H. Wood and John Wilson -- Expansion of the agrarian and demographic frontier in the Peruvian selva / Carlos E. Aramburu -- Frontier expansion and retraction in Brazil / Donald R. Sawyer -- Colonization in the Colombian Amazon / Sutti Ortiz -- Colonization in Santa Cruz, Bolivia : a comparative study of the Yapacani and San Julian Projects / Allyn MacLean Stearman -- Colonization and spontaneous settlement in the Ecuadoran Amazon / Jorge Uquillas -- Colonization in the Transamazon and Rondonia / Emilio F. Moran -- Ecological heterogeneity and horizontal zonation of agriculture in the Amazon floodplain / William M. Denevan -- Continuous cropping potential in the upper Amazon Basin / J.J. Nicholaides III, D.E. Bandy, P.A. Sanchez, J.H. Villachica, A.J. Coutu, and C.S. Valverde -- Cattle ranching in Amazonia : political and ecological considerations / Susanna B. Hecht -- National expansion and development policies in the Colombian Amazon / Camilo A. Dominguez -- Strategies of private capital in the Brazilian Amazon / Malori Jose Pompermayer -- Law and social change : the problem of land in the Brazilian Amazon / Roberto Santos -- The state and the militarization of the agrarian question in Brazil / Jose de Souza Martins |
| Notes |
"Sponsored by the Amazon Research and Training Program, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida." |
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Selected papers presented at the 31st Latin American Conference, held Feb. 8-11, 1982, at the University of Florida |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Land settlement -- Amazon River Region -- Congresses
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Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Government relations -- Congresses
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Agricultural ecology -- Amazon River Region -- Congresses
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Investments -- Amazon River Region -- Congresses
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
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Agricultural ecology
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Indians of South America -- Government relations
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Investments
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Land settlement
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Colonisation intérieure -- Amazonie -- Congrès.
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Ecologie agricole -- Amazonie -- Congrès.
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Indiens -- Amazonie -- Relations avec l'état -- Congrès.
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Investissements -- Amazonie -- Congrès.
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Amazon River Region
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Amazonie -- Conditions économiques -- Congrès.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schmink, Marianne.
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Wood, Charles H., 1945-
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University of Florida. Center for Latin American Studies.
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Latin American Conference (31st : 1982 : University of Florida)
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| ISBN |
0813020298 |
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9780813020297 |
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9780813007854 |
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0813007852 |
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