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The Brazilian Amazonia in Change I
Opening Up and Colonisation in the 1970s
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English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
In the 1970s, the whole Brazilian Amazon was opened up by road construction and the exploitation of its rich resources increased considerably. Jan Kleinpenning traces the history of this development, which began in 1972 with the opening of the first part of the Ruta Transamazônica, as well as its effects on population growth and distribution. He lays a particular focus on the programme of supervised agrarian colonisation meant to help small farmers and landless families from the densely populated and poverty-stricken Northeast of the country. Ron Milder’s contribution to this volume examines the effects on Altamira, one of the small towns along the Ruta.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Foreword to Volume 1
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15 - Part 1: The Brazilian Amazon up to the 1970s
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The Amazon area up to the rubber period
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The rubber period
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Developments in the agricultural sector in the early twentieth century
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The traditional economy
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Expansion of mining
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A weak economy
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Population size and distribution
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References
32 - Part 2: The Brazilian Amazon in the 1970s. How integration began
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Introduction
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Motives underlying the development policy
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Some development measures of the 1970s
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Provisional evaluation of the effects of some development measures
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The colonisation plans and the objections to them
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The progress of the colonisation sponsored by the INCRA
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The Altamira I Colonisation Project
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The plans for encouraging medium-sized farms
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The development measures of the period from 1974 to 1976
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Conclusions. Looking back and looking ahead
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References
169 - Part 3: Case studies from the early 1980s
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Changes in population size and distribution during the 1970s
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The development of Altamira, before and after the construction of the Transamazônica
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
March 5, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9783839475362
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
240
Illustrations:
23
Coloured Illustrations:
19
eBook ISBN:
9783839475362
Keywords for this book
Economy; Economy; Nature; Nature; Environmental History; Environmental History; Economic History; Economic History; South American History; South American History; Environmental Policy; Environmental Policy; History; History
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
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BY-SA 4.0
