Acknowledgments Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations Glossary of Words and Phrases in Portuguese Used in the Text Introduction 1. Energy Values in Unequal Exchange and Uneven Development 2. Extractive Economies and the Degradation of Natural and Human Environments 3. The Modern State, Capitalist Expansion, and Amazonian Extraction 4. The Limits of State Power on an Extractive Periphery 5. Power Differentials between Agencies and the Distortion of State Programs 6. The Cost of Modernity: Complex Bureaucracy and the Failure of the Colonization Program 7. Collaboration, Competition, and Corruption in Two Colonization Projects 8.

The Failure of Cooperatives 9. Modernizing Land Tenure Conclusion Bibliography Index.