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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 ass
Rebellion on the Amazon
Language: en
Pages: 353
Authors: Mark Harris
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-13 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This is the first book-length study in English to examine the Cabanagem, one of Brazil's largest peasant and urban-poor insurrections.
Intimate Frontiers
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Authors: Felipe Martínez-Pinzón
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A collection of multinational scholarly contributions on various cultural aspects of the Amazon region in the 20th century.
In Amazonia
Language: en
Pages: 319
Authors: Hugh Raffles
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-15 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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The Amazon is not what it seems. As Hugh Raffles shows us in this captivating and innovative book, the world's last great wilderness has been transformed again
An Environmental History of the World
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Johnson Donald Hughes
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Psychology Press

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This original work follows a chronological path through the history of mankind, in relationship to ecosystems around the world. Each chapter concentrates on a g