In search of the Amazon : Brazil, the United States, and the nature of a region

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Garfield, Seth, 1967- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press 2014.
Series:American encounters/global interactions.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Economic aspects > Amazon River Region.
Rubber industry and trade > Amazon River Region > History > 20th century.
Brazil > Foreign economic relations > United States.
United States > Foreign economic relations > Brazil.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423254306719
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.

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