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. Garfield's environmental history offers an integrated analysis of the struggles among distinct social groups over resources and power in the Amazon, as well as the repercussions of those wartime conflicts in the decades to come.
Detalles
Formato
Tapa suave
Número de Páginas
368
Lenguaje
Inglés
Editorial
Duke University Press
Fecha de Publicación
2013-12-06
Dimensiones
8.9" x 6.0" x 0.9" pulgadas
Serie
American Encounters/Global Interactions
Letra Grande
No
Con Ilustraciones
Si
Temas
América Latina
Acerca del Autor
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.
Descripción
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. Garfield's environmental history offers an integrated analysis of the struggles among distinct social groups over resources and power in the Amazon, as well as the repercussions of those wartime conflicts in the decades to come.
Detalles
Formato
Tapa dura
Número de Páginas
368
Lenguaje
Inglés
Editorial
Duke University Press
Fecha de Publicación
2013-12-06
Dimensiones
9.2" x 6.4" x 1.1" pulgadas
Serie
American Encounters/Global Interactions
Letra Grande
No
Con Ilustraciones
Si
Temas
América Latina
Acerca del Autor
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.
In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region
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