Author: Joseph Orton KerbeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
An American Consul in Amazonia
Author: Joseph Orton KerbeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
An American Consul in Amazonia
Author: Joseph Orton KerbeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920
Author: Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804766746
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The first complete account of the rise and fall of the rubber economy in Brazil provides a dramatic example of one of the boom and bust cycles traditionally associated with Brazilian economic history. The Amazon rubber trade was one of the most important export booms in the history of Latin America, dominating the economic life of the Amazon for 70 years until the successful cultivation of rubber trees by the British in Southeast Asia. Yet this long period of vigorous economic activity left the basic structure of Amazonian society relatively unchanged. One of the author's main concerns is to explore why rubber exports did not generate substantial growth in either the industrial or the agricultural sector, and she finds the answers primarily in the relations of production and exchange that characterized the Amazon's extractive economy. The study also considers the impact of political decentralization and regionalism on the Amazonian economy, draws comparisons with the coffee boom in Sao Paulo that induced sustained industrial growth in that area, and traces the consequences of the rubber economy's collapse on the social, political, and economic life in the Amazon.
In Search of the Amazon
Author: Seth GarfieldPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822377179
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
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.
Consuls and the Institutions of Global Capitalism, 1783–1914
Author: Ferry de GoeyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317320980
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The nineteenth century saw the expansion of Western influence across the globe. A consular presence in a new territory had numerous advantages for business and trade. Using specific case studies, de Goey demonstrates the key role played by consuls in the rise of the global economy.
Bulletin
Author: Pan American UnionForeigners in Latin America and relations with foreign governments
Author: George Washington CrichfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Report on Voyage of the U.S.S. Wilmington Up the Amazon River
Author: Chapman Coleman ToddPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Rebellion on the Amazon
Author: Mark HarrisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521437237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This is the first book-length study in English to examine the Cabanagem, one of Brazil's largest peasant and urban-poor insurrections.
Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon
Author: William Lewis HerndonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description