Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Preface 11
4. Foreword to Volume 1 13
5. About this book 15
6. Part 1: The Brazilian Amazon up to the 1970s
7. The Amazon area up to the rubber period 19
8. The rubber period 20
9. Developments in the agricultural sector in the early twentieth century 23
10. The traditional economy 25
11. Expansion of mining 25
12. A weak economy 26
13. Population size and distribution 27
14. References 32
15. Part 2: The Brazilian Amazon in the 1970s. How integration began
16. Introduction 35
17. Motives underlying the development policy 39
18. Some development measures of the 1970s 55
19. Provisional evaluation of the effects of some development measures 67
20. The colonisation plans and the objections to them 93
21. The progress of the colonisation sponsored by the INCRA 105
22. The Altamira I Colonisation Project 115
23. The plans for encouraging medium-sized farms 147
24. The development measures of the period from 1974 to 1976 149
25. Conclusions. Looking back and looking ahead 159
26. References 169
27. Part 3: Case studies from the early 1980s
28. Changes in population size and distribution during the 1970s 183
29. The development of Altamira, before and after the construction of the Transamazônica 213