"First study written from a regional perspective of economic history of the central Peruvian forest from 17th century to present. The process of constituting regional space and economic articulation involved pioneer colonists, highland colonists, and indigenous peoples (Amuesha and Ashaninca, who had to integrate themselves economically as a strategy of resistance and survival). Metaphor of 'order' and 'disorder' refers to the contributions to integration and articulation of regional space to national life, bringing together many factors including recent actions of armed revolutionary groups such as the Sendero Luminoso"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.