In search of the Amazon : Brazil, the United States, and the nature of a region / Seth Garfield.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Garfield, Seth, 1967-

Series:

• American encounters/global interactions.
• American encounters/global interactions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• 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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

• Durham, NC Duke University Press 2013
• Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• CC BY
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 9780822355854
• 082235585X
• 9780822377177
• 0822377179

OCLC:

994342749

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.26530/OAPEN_469256