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Title In search of the Amazon : Brazil, the United States, and the nature of a region / Seth Garfield.

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Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (xiii, 343 pages) : illustrations, maps
	text rdacontent
	computer rdamedia
	online resource rdacarrier
Series	American encounters/global interactions
	American encounters/global interactions.
	e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
Note	Description based on print version record.
Subject	World War, 1939-1945 -- Economic aspects -- Amazon River Region.
	Rubber industry and trade -- Amazon River Region -- History -- 20th century.
	Brazil -- Foreign economic relations -- United States.
	United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Brazil.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Garfield, Seth, 1967- In search of the Amazon. Durham : Duke University Press, 2014 9780822355717 9780822355854 (DLC) 2013025464 (OCoLC)840465309
ISBN	0822377179
	9780822377177
	082235571X (cloth : alk. paper)
	082235585X (pbk. : alk. paper)
	9780822355717 (cloth : alk. paper)
	9780822355854 (pbk. : alk. paper)