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.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.