In Search of the Amazon Brazil, the United States and the Nature of a Region / Seth Garfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garfield, Seth, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2013.

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. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

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:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Knowledge Unlatched Pilot Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 103396

ISBN:

9780822355717

OCLC:

994342749

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access