The scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost paradise" of Euclides da Cunha, Susanna B. Hecht
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The scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost paradise" of Euclides da Cunha, Susanna B. Hecht
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-588) and index
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The scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost paradise" of Euclides da Cunha
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Susanna B. Hecht
Table of contents
Part 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 ; Mud-walled Jerusalem, mud-walled Troy -- Part 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 -- Part 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 -- Part 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 -- Part 5. Abyss and oblivion. Killing Dr. da Cunha ; Hamlet's lament ; Illusions and oblivion -- A note on the text : fragments, translation, and photos
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