The scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost paradise" of Euclides da Cunha
By: Susanna B. Hecht
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9780226322810
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Travel; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Os sertões: the pre-Amazonian life of Euclides da Cunha; title: A short prelude: from Os sertões to As selvas; title: The unlikely protagonist; title: The afterlife of revolution; title: A quilombo called canudos; title: Mud-walled Jerusalem, mud-walled Troy; title: The scramble for the Amazon; title: In the times of scrambles in the land of the Amazons; title: Imperialisms, revolutions, and resolutions in the Caribbean Amazon; title: "American Amazon" colonizations and speculations; title: Wall street, rebels, and Rio Branco; title: Peru, Purús, Brazil; title: Euclides and the baron; title: As selvas: into the litigious zones; title: "Impressions completely new to me"; title: "Such is the river, such is its history"; title: In the realm of rubber; title: Argonauts of the Amazon; title: In hostile territory, part 1: official report of the joint boundary commission; title: In hostile territory, part 2: ex-party report from Da Cunha to baron Rio Branco; title: Cartographer at court; title: Return of the native; title: Maps, texts, and history; title: "Events that perhaps lacked a historian": reflections and supplements to the formal report of the Joint Survey Commission; title: Everyday forms of empire: the tropicalist ethnography of Euclides da Cunha; title: Abyss and oblivion; title: Killing dr. Da Cunha; title: Hamlet's lament; title: Illusions and oblivion; title: A note on the text: fragments, translation, and photos.