In search of the Amazon : : Brazil, the United States, and the nature of a region / / Seth Garfield.
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| Superior document: | American encounters/global interactions |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2014. |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American encounters/global interactions.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 343 pages) :; illustrations, maps |
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Table of 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.