In Review
Frontier Expansion in Amazonia edited by Marianne Schmink and Charles H. Wood. University of Florida Press, 1984, 502 pp., $12 (paper). This collection of academic papers from a 1982...
...Princeton University Press, 1989, 283 pp., $16.50 (paper...
...When they bear children, usually out of wedlock, they are forced to leave the family's employment and must turn to selling goods on the street...
...Photographer Dan Higgins has captured the people and places of Burlington, Vermont and its sister city Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua...
...This book surveys the traditional and not-so-traditional ways that many tropical Indian groups of Latin America manage their natural resources...
...I ache all over, and I am damp through and through...
...The brutal details of repression by police, soldiers and landowners' hired guns offer a rich and devastating picture of the tragic human consequences of Brazil's development policies...
...A riveting account of the violent conquest of the Amazon since the mid1960s written by a journalist and a sociologist...
...A major difference between the borrowing spree of the 1970s and those of the past is how much went towards military projects...
...The lives of women street peddlers and domestic servants told in the vivid and moving words of the women themselves...
...A collection of speeches, essays and documents by Latin and U.S...
...A valuable history of Latin America's debt crises with a comparative analysis of four major crises in the 19th and early 20th centuries and their links to the international financial panics of 1825, 1873, 1890 and 1929...
...role in reshaping the region's armed forces for its own ends...
...Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State by Stephen G. Bunker...
...The Politics of Antipolitics edited by Brian Loveman and Thomas M. Davies, Jr...
...Cultural Survival, 1988, 116 pp., $8 (paper...
...A Century of Debt Crisis: From Independence to the Great Depression, 1820-1930 by Carlos Marichal...
...Bunker sets out to explain the articulation of both internal and external forces in the Amazon...
...The epilogue puts the current crisis in historical perspective, maintaining that it stems more from structural causes than did earlier ones, and is therefore more difficult to resolve...
...This collection of academic papers from a 1982 conference, covering Indians, colonization, agriculture, ranching potential, and state and business policy, is a required reference on development policy and its effects on society and ecology in the Amazon...
...One woman says that at times "I can't continue...
...military officers and analysts with additional historical background by the editors...
...The editors argue that the military's contempt for politicians and belief in their own moral superiority is what motivates them to intervene...
...Zed Press Ltd., 1985, 336 pp., $30.95 (c4oth), $12.95 (paper...
...Descriptions of specific occupations are especially memorable, such as the better paid but exhausted laundress...
...The Last Frontier: Fighting Over Land in the Amazon by Sue Branford and Oriel Glock...
...Higgins' photographs are an attempt to add to that accessibility by going beyond the media images and presenting "those places where people regularly gather...
...Many start their working lives as young live-in maids surviving on the employer family's food and shelter (and little to no salary...
...Sister Cities: Side By Side photographed by Dan Higgins...
...Bergin and Garvey Publishers, Inc., 1989, $18.95 (paper...
...In his foreword, Alexander Cockburn asks "Could this kind of project have been done twenty years ago, where the images would not have been of Vermonters and Nicaraguans, but Vermonters and Vietnamese...
...Clay summarizes current research and points out areas of priority for further investigation which could provide answers to the seemingly hopeless cycle of destruction that tropical America now faces...
...Solidarity with Nicaragua has meant a "communication of knowledge, shared by many thousands of people for whom Nicaragua and the Nicaraguan Revolution have been emotionally, intellectually...accessible in a way that Vietnam and its revolution never were...
...The reader comes away with an appreciation not just of their suffering, but of their immense personal strength...
...Histories of underdevelopment tend to focus on either external factors-like imperialism and dependency-or internal factors, such as modes of production...
...University of Illinois Press, 1985, 279 pp., $24.50 (cloth...
...Sellers and Servants: Working Women in Lima, Peru by Ximena Bunster and Elsa M. Chaney...
...The book offers a brief history of those policies and shows how peasants and Indians are fighting back...
...Focuses on the Latin American military's ideological tradition of what the editors call "antipolitics," that is, the rejection of "politics" defined as conflict among personalist factions and political parties over ideology or power, and politicians' subordination of national welfare to personal ambition and corruption...
...The book is particularly useful for understanding the many colossal failures of Brazilian development policy...
...A good research source but weak on the U.S...
...The result is a compilation of photographic pairs showing the two cities' firemen, library, city hall, bar, vendors, courthouse, laundry, taxi drivers, elementary school, church, and other local spots...
...Just because using tropical forest for cattle grazing or large-scale agriculture has proven to be an economic and ecological disaster does not mean that the resources of the tropical forests cannot be harvested in a useful and sustainable way...
...Green Valley Film and Art, Inc., 1988, 64 pp., $14.95 (paper...
...University of Nebraska Press, 1989, 517 pp., $15.95 (paper...
...Significantly, in no period of modem Latin American history has financial corruption reached such heights nor has political repression been so extreme as today...
...The answer...is no...
...Indigenous Peoples and Tropical Forests: Models of Land Use and Management from Latin America by Jason W. Clay...
...Extensive bibliographies annexed to each article make it particularly useful for researchers...
Vol. 23 • May 1989 • No. 1
