TY  - BOOK
AU  - Garfield, Seth
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.26530/oapen_469256
ID  - OAPEN ID: 649961
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 994342749
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30139
KW  - History
KW  - Brazil
KW  - Ceará
KW  - Natural rubber
KW  - United States
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30139/1/649961.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30139/1/649961.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30139/1/649961.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30139/1/649961.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38148
PB  - Duke University Press
PP  - Durham, NC
PY  - 2013-01-01
SN  - 9780822355717
TI  - In Search of the Amazon : Brazil, the United States and the Nature of a Region
ER  - 
