TY - BOOK AU - Garfield,Seth ED - Project Muse. TI - In Search of the Amazon : : Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region / T2 - American encounters/global interactions SN - 9780822377177 PY - 2013/// CY - Durham PB - Duke University Press KW - USA KW - stw KW - Brasilien KW - Amazonasgebiet KW - Nationale Sicherheit KW - Entwicklung KW - Kriegswirtschaft KW - Gummiindustrie KW - Kautschukmarkt KW - Wirtschaftsgeschichte KW - Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen KW - Umweltschaden KW - gnd KW - Sozialer Konflikt KW - Ressourcenpolitik KW - Geopolitik KW - Rubber industry and trade KW - fast KW - International economic relations KW - Economics KW - SCIENCE KW - Environmental Science KW - bisacsh KW - HISTORY KW - General KW - Amazon River Region KW - History KW - 20th century KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Economic aspects KW - Bresil KW - rero KW - Etats-Unis KW - Amazonie KW - Amazonastiefland KW - United States KW - Brazil KW - Foreign economic relations KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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; 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. 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/66743/ ER -