Modernization and political actions in the Brazilian Amazon : the City of Barcarena, Pará / João Santos Nahum.

Preface; Contents; 1 The Modern Territorial Reordering of Barcarena; Abstract; 1.1 The Modernization Through Albras/Alunorte; 1.2 Locations of Spontaneous Occupation; 1.3 A Fabulous Place Planned: The Village of Cabanos; References; 2 The Use of the Territory as a Resource by the Ruling Elite of Barcarena; Abstract; 2.1 The Conservative Actions System; 2.1.1 The Dispatches Policy; 2.1.2 The Political Coercion; 2.1.3 The Centralization and the Opacity; 2.1.4 The City's Policy in the Works; References

3 The Management of Laurival Magno Cunha and the Implementation of the Fiscal Responsibility LawAbstract; 3.1 The Fiscal Responsibility Law: A State's Instrument of Reform; 3.2 The Fiscal Responsibility Law in Barcarena: Modernization and Conservation; References; 4 Conclusion; Abstract; References; Annex-About the Sources of Verbal Information; Bibliography