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Tamed frontiers : economy, society, and civil rights in upper Amazonia

Author: Fernando Santos-Granero; Frederica Barclay
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This is an engaging story of major changes in the political economy, rural landscape, and civil society of Loreto, the northern portion of Peruvian Amazonia. It begins with the opening up of the Amazon River to international navigation in 1851 and ends with a shift to a neo-liberal political paradigm and the signing of a peace treaty with Ecuador in the 1990s."--BOOK JACKET.
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Santos-Granero, Fernando, 1955-
Tamed frontiers.
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000
(OCoLC)654640843
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Fernando Santos-Granero; Frederica Barclay
ISBN: 0813337178 9780813337173
OCLC Number: 41540174
Description: xiv, 386 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Coming of Age, 1851-1914 --
"Paying Preferential Attention": The State and the Rearing of Loreto --
"A Magical Product": The Ecological Basis of the Rubber Economy --
"Having No Other Capital Than Our Personnel": Labor Recruitment and Control --
"Commerce Is the Most Powerful Agent": The Hegemonic Role of Merchant Houses --
"Extending Its Control": State Regulation and Local Resistance --
In Search of a New Economic Identity, 1915-1962 --
"Kept in the Cruelest Oblivion": Rubber Crisis, State Indifference, and Private Gambles --
"Buyers of All Sorts of Regional Products": Merchant Houses and Export Cycles --
"Purveyors of All Sorts of Regional Products": The Workings of the Fundo/Patron System --
"Ensuring the Region's Future": State Action and the End of Fundo/Merchant House Dominance --
The Taming of the Frontier, 1963-1990 --
"Amazonia Will Become a Joyous Region": State Planning and Oil Exploration --
"Attempting to Change the Phoenician Mentality": From Trading Elite to Regional Bourgeoisie --
"Without Patrones We Lead a Better Life": The Emancipation of Fundo Peons --
"People Expect the State to Solve Everything": Popular Organization and Regionalist Demands.
Responsibility: Fernando Santos-Granero, Frederica Barclay.
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"This is an engaging story of major changes in the political economy, rural landscape, and civil society of Loreto, the northern portion of Peruvian Amazonia. It begins with the opening up of the Amazon River to international navigation in 1851 and ends with a shift to a neo-liberal political paradigm and the signing of a peace treaty with Ecuador in the 1990s."--BOOK JACKET.

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