Coffee Labor Regimes and Deforestation on a Brazilian Frontier, 1915–1965Footnote

* Research was funded by the Organization of American States (PRA No. F44890); the National Science Foundation (Geography and Regional Science Program, Dissertation Improvement Grant No. SBR-9508433); Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society (Grant-in-Aid of Research); and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School (Foreign Travel Grant). For research logistics I am grateful to Hugo de Souza Dias (Centro de Desenvolvimento do Vale do Paranapanema), Patrícia Barbosa Fazano (Consórcio Intermunicipal do Escritório da Região de Governo de Assis), Marlene Aparecida de Souza Gasque (Centro de Documentação e Apoio à Pesquisa in Assis), and Antônio Manoel dos Santos Oliveira. I also thank W. E. Jepson and four anonymous reviewers for comments on earlier versions of the manuscript.

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