In search of the Amazon
Subtitle: Brazil, the United States, and the nature of a region
By: Seth Garfield
Series: American encounters/global interactions
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780822355717; 9780822355854
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Umweltschaden; International economic relations; Ressourcenpolitik; Sozialer Konflikt; Economics; World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924; World War, 1939-1945; Geopolitik; Foreign economic relations; Rubber industry and trade; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-332) and index.
Table of contents: title: Border and progress : the Amazon and the estado novo; title: "The quicksands of untrustworthy supply" : U.S. rubber dependency and the lure of the Amazon; title: Rubber's "soldiers" : reinventing the Amazonian worker; title: The environment of northeastern migration to the Amazon : landscapes, labor, and love; title: War in the Amazon : struggles over resources and images; title: Epilogue: From wartime soldiers to green guerrillas.