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In search of the Amazon

por Garfield, Seth

Series: American encounters / global interactions Publicado por : Duke University Press (Durham (Inglaterra)) Detalles físicos: 343 páginas ilustraciones, fotografías, mapas ISBN:0822377179; 9780822355717 ; 9780822355854.

Tema(s): Guerra Mundial II, 1939 -1945 -- Aspectos económicos -- Brasil | Industria del caucho -- Brasil -- Historia -- Siglo XX | Geopolítica -- Siglo XX | Brasil -- Relaciones económicas exteriores -- Estados Unidos | Estados Unidos -- Relaciones económicas exteriores -- Brasil

Año : 2013

Existencias ( 2 )
Notas de título ( 4 )

Tipo de ítem	Ubicación actual	Colección	Signatura	Copia número	Estado	Fecha de vencimiento	Código de barras	Reserva de ítems
Libro	Claustro Mezanine	Libro	338.476782 G231s (Navegar estantería)	Ej.1	Disponible		100149411
Libro	Claustro Mezanine	Libro	338.476782 G231s (Navegar estantería)	Ej.2	Disponible		100149412

Total de reservas: 0

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índices

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.

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. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.--Résumé de l'éditeur.

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