Download or read book Tamed Frontiers written by Fernando Santos Granero and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A path-breaking study combining perspectives from economic history, social anthropology, and political science to demonstrate that Amazonian frontier economies are not doomed to a self-reproducing condition of lawlessness, marginality, and underdevelopment.