Tamed Frontiers
Subtitle: Economy, Society, and Civil Rights in Upper Amazonia
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780813337173
Subjects: Development economics; Development studies; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Economic Conditions; Culture; Economics Of Developing Countries; Social conditions; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Peru; Politics/International Relations; Anthropology - General; Sociology - General; Civil rights; Civil society; Loreto (Dept.); Loreto (Peru : Dept.)
First sentence: In 1767, after the Jesuits were expelled from the province of Maynas (the name given to Loreto in colonial times), the region fell into chaos.