Recent developments in Western Amazonia: the emergence of an industrial complex in Manaus

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English

Bibliographic Citation

The California Geographer 13: 21-26

Notes

Virtually everyone who has a sixth grade geography class, or lacking that, an introductory geography course at a more advanced level, is familiar with the story of the rapid rise, glowing prosperity, and precipitous decline of the rubber boom which developed in Amazonia in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century. One of the focal points of this rubber boom was the city of Manaus, Amazonas, located some one thousand miles up river from the mouth of the Rio Amazonas. In most cases, one is left with the impression that Manaus was a boom town that turned into a veritable ghost town. The purpose of this paper then, is to trace some of the recent developments in Western Amazonia which have resulted in the emergence of an industrial complex centered in Manaus.

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