Garfield In Search of the Amazon

Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7717-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

Reihe: American Encounters/Global Interactions

This history of the international, national, and local conflicts surrounding the extraction of resources from the Amazon during the Second World War shows how those conflicts shaped contemporary ideas about the rainforest.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garfield, Seth

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acronyms ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction. The Reappearing Amazon 1

1. Border and Progress: The Amazon and the Estado Novo 9

2. "The Quicksands of Untrustworthy Supply": U.S. Rubber Dependency and the Lure of the Amazon 49

3. Rubber's "Soldiers": Reinventing the Amazonian Worker 86

4. The Environment of Northeastern Migration to the Amazon: Landscapes, Labor, and Love 127

5. War in the Amazon: Struggles over Resources and Images 170

Epilogue. From Wartime Soldiers to Green Guerrillas 213

Notes 229

Bibliography 303

Index 333

Über Autor(innen)

Seth Garfield is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937–1988, also published by Duke University Press.