In Search of the Amazon Brazil, the United States and the Nature of a Region
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, popula...
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Durham, NC
Duke University Press
2013
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