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In Search of the Amazon : Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region /

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Chronicling the dramatic history of the Brazilian Amazon during the Second World War, Seth Garfield provides fresh perspectives on contemporary environmental debates. His multifaceted analysis explains how the Amazon became the object of geopolitical rivalries, state planning, media coverage, popula...

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Hlavní autor: Garfield, Seth, 1967- (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
Edice:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Témata:
USA
Brasilien
Amazonasgebiet
Nationale Sicherheit
Entwicklung
Kriegswirtschaft
Gummiindustrie
Kautschukmarkt
Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen
Umweltschaden
Sozialer Konflikt
Ressourcenpolitik
Geopolitik
Rubber industry and trade.
International economic relations.
Economics.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
HISTORY > General.
SCIENCE > General.
Rubber industry and trade > Amazon River Region > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Economic aspects > Amazon River Region.
Bresil.
Etats-Unis.
Amazonie > Bresil.
Amazonastiefland
United States.
Brazil.
Amazon River Region.
United States > Foreign economic relations > Brazil.
Brazil > Foreign economic relations > United States.
History.
Electronic books.
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  • Border and progress : the Amazon and the estado novo
  • "The quicksands of untrustworthy supply" : U.S. rubber dependency and the lure of the Amazon
  • Rubber's "soldiers" : reinventing the Amazonian worker
  • The environment of northeastern migration to the Amazon : landscapes, labor, and love
  • War in the Amazon : struggles over resources and images
  • Epilogue: From wartime soldiers to green guerrillas.

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