The fortunes of the late nineteenth century's imperial and industrial powers depended on a single raw material - rubber - with only one source: the Amazon basin. And so began the scramble for the Amazon - a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, Belgium, and the Unite…
The fortunes of the late nineteenth century's imperial and industrial powers depended on a single raw material - rubber - with only one source: the Amazon basin. And so began the scramble for the Amazon - a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, Belgium, and the Unite…
"Landscapes of Inequity examines a range of environmental justice issues in the Andes and western Amazon basin from the perspectives of indigenous peoples and economic development in a global economy"--
After the reign of terror : slavery and the economy of post-Cabanagem Pará, 1835-c.1870 -- Killing the big snake : myth and history in the Trombetas River, 1800-1888 -- I do not buy my freedom because I am not a fool : environmental creolization and the erection of communities i…
