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In search of the Amazon : Brazil, the United States, and the nature of a region
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Title
In search of the Amazon : Brazil, the United States, and the nature of a region / Seth Garfield.
ISBN
9780822377177
0822377179
9780822355717 (cloth : alk. paper)
082235571X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822355854 (pbk. : alk. paper)
082235585X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 343 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Variant and related titles
e-Duke books scholarly collection 2013.
Other formats
Print version: Garfield, Seth, 1967- In search of the Amazon. Durham : Duke University Press, 2014
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 24, 2018
Series
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.
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