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In Search of the Amazon
Author | : Seth Garfield |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2014-02-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780822377177 |
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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. 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.
In Search of the Amazon
Author | : Seth Garfield |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2014-02-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780822377177 |
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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. 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.
At the End of the Rainbow
Author | : Gordon MacMillan |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0231103557 |
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Throughout the 1980s, a combination of widespread poverty and favorable gold prices encouraged hoards of wildcat miners to penetrate some of the Amazon's rainforest headwaters in search of new deposits. Now, hundreds of makeshift camps threaten the future of both the rainforest and the indigenous people who inhabit it. This book explains how gold fever came to grip the Amazon and considers the changes it has brought to the region. It contains a vivid account of the violent clash between forty thousand miners and the Yanamami Indians in the state of Roraima, as well as thoroughly researched arguments that explore the perspectives of the farmers, ranchers, natives, and others involved in this historic moment.
Search the Amazon
Author | : Doug Wilhelm |
Publsiher | : Skylark |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0553563920 |
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Investigating the strange disappearance of the pink dolphin with the reader's biologist grandfather, the reader must rescue grandfather from kidnappers who do not want anyone to solve the mystery.
Amazon Hacks
Author | : Paul Bausch |
Publsiher | : "O'Reilly Media, Inc." |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0596005423 |
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With this collection of tips and tools, users can get the most out of Amazon.com, whether they are avid Amazon shoppers, Amazon associates developing online storefronts, or programmers building apps based on Amazon Web Services.
The Lost City of Z
Author | : David Grann |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2009-02-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780385529228 |
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction “with all the pace and excitement of a movie thriller”(The New York Times) that unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century—the story of the legendary British explorer who ventured into the Amazon jungle in search of a fabled civilization and never returned. "[Grann is] one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed writer David Grann set out to determine what happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z. For centuries Europeans believed the Amazon, the world’s largest rain forest, concealed the glittering kingdom of El Dorado. Thousands had died looking for it, leaving many scientists convinced that the Amazon was truly inimical to humankind. In 1925 Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization, hoping to make one of the most important discoveries in history. Then he vanished. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called “The Lost City of Z.” In this masterpiece, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett’s quest for “Z” and his own journey into the deadly jungle. Look for David Grann’s latest bestselling book, The Wager!
Terror on the Amazon
Author | : Phil Gates |
Publsiher | : DK Children |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0789466384 |
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Describes the conquistadores and their dangerous search for gold, jewels, and spices in the South American jungle.
Intimate Frontiers
Author | : Felipe Martínez-Pinzón,Javier Uriarte |
Publsiher | : American Tropics Towards a Lit |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781786941831 |
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A collection of multinational scholarly contributions on various cultural aspects of the Amazon region in the 20th century.