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

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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Main Author: Garfield, Seth, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
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