In search of the Amazon : Brazil, the United States, and the nature of a region /
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2014.
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Series: | American encounters/global interactions.
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Online Access: | Click to View |
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.