TY  - GEN
AU  - Garfield,Seth
TI  - In Search of the Amazon : Brazil, the United States and the Nature of a Region
SN  - oapen_469256
PY  - 2013///0101
CY  - Durham, NC
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Latin America
KW  - bicssc
KW  - History
KW  - Brazil
KW  - Ceará
KW  - Natural rubber
KW  - United States
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30139/1/649961.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30139/1/649961.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30139/1/649961.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38148
ER  -