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The scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost paradise" of Euclides da Cunha
- Title
- The scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost paradise" of Euclides da Cunha / Susanna B. Hecht.
- Author
- Hecht, Susanna B.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- xv, 612 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 533-588) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. 1. Os sertões: the pre-Amazonian life of Euclides da Cunha . A short prelude: from Os sertões to As selvas ; The unlikely protagonist ; The afterlife of revolution ; A quilombo called canudos -- Md-walled Jerusalem, mud-walled Troy -- pt. 2. The scramble for the Amazon. In the times of scrambles in the land of the Amazons ; Imperialisms, revolutions, and resolutions in the Caribbean Amazon ; "American Amazon" colonizations and speculations ; Wall street, rebels, and Rio Branco ; Peru, Purús, Brazil ; Euclides and the baron -- pt. 3. As selvas: into the litigious zones. "Impressions completely new to me" ; "Such is the river, such is its history" ; In the realm of rubber ; Argonauts of the Amazon ; In hostile territory, part 1: official report of the joint boundary commission ; In hostile territory, part 2: ex-party report from Da Cunha to baron Rio Branco -- pt. 4. Cartographer at court. Return of the native ; Maps, texts, and history ; "Events that perhaps lacked a historian": reflections and supplements to the formal report of the Joint Survey Commission ; Everyday forms of empire: the tropicalist ethnography of Euclides da Cunha -- pt. 5. Abyss and oblivion. Killing Dr. Da Cunha -- Hamlet's lament -- Illusions and oblivion.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-5712
- ISBN
- 9780226322810 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 0226322815 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012027399
- OCLC
- 798809951
- Author
- Hecht, Susanna B.
- Title
- The scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost paradise" of Euclides da Cunha / Susanna B. Hecht.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 533-588) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-5712