Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acronyms ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction. The Reappearing Amazon 1
6. Chapter 1 Border and Progress: The Amazon and the Estado Novo 9
7. Chapter 2 “The Quicksands of Untrustworthy Supply”: U.S. Rubber Dependency and the Lure of the Amazon 49
8. Chapter 3 Rubber’s “Soldiers”: Reinventing the Amazonian Worker 86
9. Chapter 4 The Environment of Northeastern Migration to the Amazon: Landscapes, Labor, and Love 127
10. Chapter 5 War in the Amazon: Struggles over Resources and Images 170
11. Epilogue From Wartime Soldiers to Green Guerrillas 213
12. Notes 229
13. Bibliography 303
14. Index 333