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In Search of the Amazon

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Seth Garfield

Publication year - 2013

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Book series

DOI - 10.1215/9780822377177

Subject(s) - amazon rainforest , geopolitics , intervention (counseling) , state (computer science) , political science , work (physics) , politics , power (physics) , geography , history , engineering , law , psychology , mechanical engineering , ecology , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , psychiatry , computer science , biology

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

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