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oapen-20.500.12657-301392024-03-25T09:51:08Z In Search of the Amazon Garfield, Seth History Brazil Ceará Natural rubber United States thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1K The Americas::1KL Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America 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. 2018-05-18 23:55 2020-03-10 03:00:28 2020-04-01T12:46:02Z 2020-04-01T12:46:02Z 2013-01-01 book 649961 OCN: 994342749 9780822355717 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30139 eng American Encounters/Global Interactions application/pdf n/a 649961.pdf Duke University Press 10.26530/oapen_469256 103396 10.26530/oapen_469256 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780822355717 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Durham, NC 103396 KU Pilot Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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