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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Garfield, Seth, 1967-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:American encounters/global interactions.
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Table of 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.