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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

This is the first book-length study in English to examine the Cabanagem, one of Brazil's largest peasant and urban-poor insurrections.

A collection of multinational scholarly contributions on various cultural aspects of the Amazon region in the 20th century.

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

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