Victims of the Miracle: Development and the Indians of Brazil. This item is unavailable.Victims of the Miracle: Development and the Indians of Brazil

205 pages : 22 cm. Contents: 1. Brazilian Indian policy: an historical overview; Part I. The Economic History of the Brazilian Amazon, 1940 to 1970: 2. Development plans in the postwar period; 3. The significance of the military coup of 1964; Part II. Contemporary Indian Policy in Brazil, 1970 to 1975: 4. The Villas Boas brothers and Indian policy in Brazil; 5. Pacification expeditions along the Trans-Amazon highway network; 6. The invasion of the Aripuana Indian Park; 7. Indain policy and the amazon mining frontier; Part III. The Social and Ecological Effects of the Polamazonia Program, 1975 to 1979: 8. The rise of agribusiness in Brazil; 9. The deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon; 10. The Amazon Basin: implications for US foreign policy in Brazil; Notes; Bibliography; Index.