In search of the Amazon : Brazil, the United States, and the nature of a region / Seth Garfield.

By: Garfield, Seth, 1967-Material type: TextTextSeries: American encounters/global interactions | e-Duke books scholarly collectionPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 343 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 0822377179; 9780822377177Subject(s): 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 -- BrazilGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: In search of the Amazon.LOC classification: HC188.A485 | G37 2014Online resources: Click to View
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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