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In search of the Amazon : Brazil, the United States, and the nature of a region / Seth Garfield.
Lippincott Library HC188.A485 G37 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garfield, Seth, 1967- author.
- Series:
- American encounters/global interactions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects--Amazon River Region.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Rubber industry and trade--Amazon River Region--History--20th century.
- Rubber industry and trade.
- International economic relations.
- History.
- Brazil--Foreign economic relations--United States.
- Brazil.
- United States--Foreign economic relations--Brazil.
- United States.
- Amazon River Region.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, North Carolina ; London : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- Chronicling the dramatic history of the Brazilian Amazon during the Second World War, Seth Garfield provides fresh perspectives on contemporary environmental debates. He 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Border and Progress: The Amazon and the Estado Novo 9
- Chapter 2 "The Quicksands of Untrustworthy Supply": U.S. Rubber Dependency and the Luxe of the Amazon 49
- Chapter 3 Rubber's "Soldiers": Reinventing the Amazonian Worker 86
- Chapter 4 The Environment of Northeastern Migration to the Amazon: Landscapes, Labor, and Love 127
- Chapter 5 War in the Amazon: Struggles over Resources and Images 170.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822355717
- 082235571X
- 082235585X
- 9780822355854
- OCLC:
- 859557947
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