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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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Päätekijä: Garfield, Seth, 1967- (Tekijä)
Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen E-kirja
Kieli:englanti
Julkaistu: Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
Sarja:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Aiheet:
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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Yhteenveto: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, popular fascination, and social conflict. In need of rubber, a vital war material, the United States spent millions of dollars to revive the Amazon's rubber trade. In the name of development and national security, Brazilian officials implemented public programs to engineer the hinterland's transformation. Migrants from Brazil's drought-stricken Northeast flocked to the Amazon in search of work. In defense of traditional ways of life, longtime Amazon residents sought to temper outside intervention. Garfield's environmental history offers an integrated analysis of the struggles among distinct social groups over resources and power in the Amazon, as well as the repercussions of those wartime conflicts in the decades to come.
Ulkoasu:1 online resource (360 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9780822377177
Pääsy:Open Access

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