In search of the Amazon : Brazil, the United States, and the nature of a region - Garfield, Seth, 1967- (Durham : Duke University Press, 2014)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Keywords: 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; Electronic books