{"product_id":"in-search-of-the-amazon-9780822355717","title":"In Search of the Amazon","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis history of the international, national, and local conflicts surrounding the extraction of resources from the Amazon during the Second World War shows how those conflicts shaped contemporary ideas about the rainforest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In equal measure environmental, economic, and diplomatic history, Seth Garfield's \u003ci\u003eIn Search of the Amazon \u003c\/i\u003eis much more than the sum of its parts. With clear prose and sharp analysis, Garfield's wonderful new book is a model for how to write the social history of nature, placing the great, wondrous Amazon at the heart of America's transnational twentieth century.\"—\u003cb\u003eGreg Grandin\u003c\/b\u003e, author of\u003ci\u003e Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this path-breaking study, Seth Garfield explores one of the most significant U.S. interventions in Amazonia. During World War II, the United States was desperate for rubber after losing access to Asian markets. In alliance with Brazil, the U.S. government embarked on an aggressive initiative to jump-start the Amazon rubber trade. Garfield masterfully recasts U.S.-Amazonian relations, revealing the wartime roots of the ideological and bureaucratic structures that have shaped modern Amazonia.\"—\u003cb\u003eSusanna B. Hecht\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Scramble for the Amazon and the \u003c\/i\u003eLost Paradise\u003ci\u003e of Euclides da Cunha\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Seth Garfield's extraordinary book reflects an enormous amount of research, knowledge, and thought about the Amazon. Besides recounting a fascinating chapter of World War II, Garfield places the history of the Amazon within a grid of political, social, and economic concerns that transcend the region's borders but are ultimately modulated by its particular circumstances of settlement and exploitation. He demonstrates the importance of wartime events in shaping subsequent disputes over the fate of the rain forest.\"—\u003cb\u003eBarbara Weinstein\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850–1920\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book is engagingly written and packed full of information and excellent illustrations. . . . It will appeal especially strongly to those interested in U.S. involvement in Latin America before the Cold War. By placing U.S. intervention in Amazonian and Brazilian histories, Garfield recounts another chapter in the making of this enigmatic region that is the wartime roots of the ideological and administrative structures that have shaped the place today.\" -- Mark Harris * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"[Garfield] succeeds best as a straightforward storyteller in the best tradition of talented historians.\" -- Angus Wright * Environmental History *\u003cbr\u003e\"Garfield is to be commended for shedding so much light on the cultural and eonomic history of the Amazon in the twentieth century. This book is a must have for all those interested in development policy in the Amazon.\" -- Nigel Smith * Journal of Historical Geography *\u003cbr\u003e“I highly recommend this book for its systematic and nuanced treatment of a region in flux. Garfield traces important precursors of contemporary inter-regional migration, land conflict, environmental change, and regional development policies. Amazon specialists will enjoy the meticulous archival work, and geographers will appreciate the focus on environmental history and political ecology. Those with general Latin American interests will learn about an important but often overlooked chapter in regional change.” -- Brian J. Godfrey * Journal of Latin American Geography *\u003cbr\u003e“This thoughtful, well-rounded book is, then, an invaluable addition to the English language historiography of the Amazon that remedies a gap in the extant literature. It also foregrounds an aspect of the war effort far from the battlefields that made an important, if largely unacknowledged, contribution to Allied victory for which participating Brazilian rubbers tappers could retrospectively be proud.” -- Philip Chrimes * International Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e“Garfield makes an important contribution to Brazilian historiography…. [He] combines thorough research in US and Brazilian government documents and contemporary publications with discerning use of labor and criminal court cases and oral histories with rubber migrants.” -- Thomas D. Rogers * Hispanic American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e“Although this may seem like well-traveled historiographical territory, Garfield finds new information to tap and synthesize. Whereas most books on the Amazon focus on a single topic …  the strength and novelty of Garfield’s work is his focus on the convergence of all of these elements and more. Garfield’s social and environmental approach means that he does not focus solely on the thoughts and actions of policy makers. Instead, he puts labor and nature at the center of the narrative to show how the Amazon was built from below. Garfield’s book successfully merges global, national, and local history.” -- Myrna Santiago * Labor *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIn Search of the Amazon\u003c\/i\u003e is an important addition to the Amazonia bookshelf.... [R]eaders will enjoy the exotic settings, dramatic story, and larger historical interpretations.\" -- Michael L. Conniff * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcronyms ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. The Reappearing Amazon 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Border and Progress: The Amazon and the Estado Novo 9\u003cbr\u003e 2. \"The Quicksands of Untrustworthy Supply\": U.S. Rubber Dependency and the Lure of the Amazon 49\u003cbr\u003e 3. Rubber's \"Soldiers\": Reinventing the Amazonian Worker 86\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Environment of Northeastern Migration to the Amazon: Landscapes, Labor, and Love 127\u003cbr\u003e 5. War in the Amazon: Struggles over Resources and Images 170\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. From Wartime Soldiers to Green Guerrillas 213\u003cbr\u003e Notes 229\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 303\u003cbr\u003e Index 333","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406078484823,"sku":"9780822355717","price":80.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822355717.jpg?v=1730494452","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-search-of-the-amazon-9780822355717","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}