American Encounters/Global Interactions
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American Encounters/Global Interactions

Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region

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American Encounters/Global Interactions

Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region

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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.

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Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2014
ISBN
9780822377177
Topic
Ciencias biológicas
Subtopic
Ciencia medioambiental

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acronyms
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: The Reappearing Amazon
  5. Chapter 1. Border and Progress: The Amazon and the Estado Novo
  6. Chapter 2. “The Quicksands of Untrustworthy Supply” : U.S. Rubber Dependency and the Lure of the Amazon
  7. Chapter 3. Rubber’s “Soldiers” : Reinventing the Amazonian Worker
  8. Chapter 4. The Environment of Northeastern Migration to the Amazon: Landscapes, Labor, and Love
  9. Chapter 5. War in the Amazon: Struggles over Resources and Images
  10. Epilogue: From Wartime Soldiers to Green Guerrillas
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index