UID:
kobvindex_HPB864139137
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 343 pages) :
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illustrations, maps
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
ISBN:
9780822377177
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0822377179
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1306157927
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9781306157926
Series Statement:
American encounters/global interactions
Content:
Chronicling the dramatic history of the Brazilian Amazon during the Second World War, Seth Garfield provides fresh perspectives on contemporary environmental debates. His multifaceted analysis explains how the Amazon became the object of geopolitical rivalries, state planning, media coverage, popular fascination, and social conflict. In need of rubber, a vital war material, the United States spent millions of dollars to revive the Amazon's rubber trade. In the name of development and national security, Brazilian officials implemented public programs to engineer the hinterland's transformation. Migrants from Brazil's drought-stricken Northeast flocked to the Amazon in search of work. In defense of traditional ways of life, longtime Amazon residents sought to temper outside intervention. Garfield's environmental history offers an integrated analysis of the struggles among distinct social groups over resources and power in the Amazon, as well as the repercussions of those wartime conflicts in the decades to come.
Note:
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.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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English.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Garfield, Seth, 1967- In search of the Amazon. Durham : Duke University Press, 2013 ISBN 9780822355717
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
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