List of Acronyms  ix

Acknowledgments  xi

Introduction. The Reappearing Amazon  1

1. Border and Progress: The Amazon and the Estado Novo  9

2. "The Quicksands of Untrustworthy Supply": U.S. Rubber Dependency and the Lure of the Amazon  49

3. Rubber's "Soldiers": Reinventing the Amazonian Worker  86

4. The Environment of Northeastern Migration to the Amazon: Landscapes, Labor, and Love  127

5. War in the Amazon: Struggles over Resources and Images  170

Epilogue. From Wartime Soldiers to Green Guerrillas  213

Notes  229

Bibliography  303

Index  333

"In equal measure environmental, economic, and diplomatic history, Seth Garfield's In Search of the Amazon is 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."—Greg Grandin, author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

"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."—Barbara Weinstein, author of The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850–1920

"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."—Susanna B. Hecht, author of The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha

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