Tamed frontiers
Subtitle: economy, society, and civil rights in upper Amazonia
By: Fernando Santos-Granero, Frederica Barclay
Contributors: Barclay, Frederica
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Civil society -- Peru -- Loreto (Dept.); Civil rights -- Peru -- Loreto (Dept.); Loreto (Peru : Dept.) -- Economic conditions; Loreto (Peru : Dept.) -- Social conditions
Description: "This is an engaging story of major changes in the political economy, rural landscape, and civil society of Loreto, the northern portion of Peruvian Amazonia. It begins with the opening up of the Amazon River to international navigation in 1851 and ends with a shift to a neo-liberal political paradigm and the signing of a peace treaty with Ecuador in the 1990s."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (349-369) and index