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

Author
Garfield, Seth, 1967-
Title
In search of the Amazon : Brazil, the United States, and the nature of a region / Seth Garfield.
ISBN
9780822355717 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822355854 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Physical Description
xiii, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 13, 2014
Series
American encounters/global interactions.
American encounters/global interactions
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subjects
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.
Bookmark As
https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/11815359
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