The Colonization of the Amazon Book

	Acknowledgments
1	The Decade of Colonization	1
Pt. 1	The Dimensions of the Frontier
2	Rural Frontier and Urban Frontier	15
3	Occupation and Availability of and in the Amazon	31
4	Agricultural Suitability of Amazon Soils	44
5	The Closing Frontier	53
Pt. 2	The Frontier and the State
6	The Role of the Brazilian State on the Amazon Frontier	65
7	Spatial Homogenization of the Amazon	70
8	Directed Settlement	85
9	Complementing Institutions	103
10	The Cost of Directed Colonization	111
Pt. 3	The Frontier and the Market
11	The Expansion of the Market	121
12	The Economic Dynamic of Colonization	129
13	The Appropriation of Agricultural Surplus	147
14	Colonists' Market Response	163
15	Frontier Merchants	181
Pt. 4	The Colonists
16	The Appropriation of Income in Directed Colonization	208
17	Costs and Benefits	234
18	Market Segmentation	246
19	Agricultural Strategies	264
20	Differentiation on the Frontier	283
21	Itinerancy and Adaptation to the Amazon	307
22	Colonization and Agrarian Reform: The Current Debate	317
23	Postscript: The Many Dimensions of the Amazon Frontier	331
	Glossary	335
	Bibliography	339
	Index	365