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Acknowledgments | |
The Decade of Colonization | p. 1 |
The Dimensions of the Frontier | |
Rural Frontier and Urban Frontier | p. 15 |
Occupation and Availability of and in the Amazon | p. 31 |
Agricultural Suitability of Amazon Soils | p. 44 |
The Closing Frontier | p. 53 |
The Frontier and the State | |
The Role of the Brazilian State on the Amazon Frontier | p. 65 |
Spatial Homogenization of the Amazon | p. 70 |
Directed Settlement | p. 85 |
Complementing Institutions | p. 103 |
The Cost of Directed Colonization | p. 111 |
The Frontier and the Market | |
The Expansion of the Market | p. 121 |
The Economic Dynamic of Colonization | p. 129 |
The Appropriation of Agricultural Surplus | p. 147 |
Colonists' Market Response | p. 163 |
Frontier Merchants | p. 181 |
The Colonists | |
The Appropriation of Income in Directed Colonization | p. 208 |
Costs and Benefits | p. 234 |
Market Segmentation | p. 246 |
Agricultural Strategies | p. 264 |
Differentiation on the Frontier | p. 283 |
Itinerancy and Adaptation to the Amazon | p. 307 |
Colonization and Agrarian Reform: The Current Debate | p. 317 |
Postscript: The Many Dimensions of the Amazon Frontier | p. 331 |
Glossary | p. 335 |
Bibliography | p. 339 |
Index | p. 365 |
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