Modes of Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Progressive Underdevelopment of an Extreme Periphery: The Brazilian Amazon, 1600-1980.

Bunker, Stephen G.

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ERIC Number: EJ297352

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Publication Date: 1984

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Modes of Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Progressive Underdevelopment of an Extreme Periphery: The Brazilian Amazon, 1600-1980.

Bunker, Stephen G.

American Journal of Sociology, v89 n5 p1017-64 Mar 1984

A model organized around the predominance of specific commodities at different times is used in a case study of the sequence of extractive export economies in the Amazon basin from the colonial period to the present. Such a model highlights the differences between extractive and productive economies. (Author/IS)

Descriptors: Capitalism, Case Studies, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Economic Research, Economics, Foreign Countries, Latin American History, Models

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Brazil

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