Hecht, Susanna B.
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-588) and index.
• 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — Abyss and oblivion — Killing dr. Da Cunha — Hamlet’s lament — Illusions and oblivion — A note on the text: fragments, translation, and photos.

Subjects:

• Cunha, Euclides da, 1866-1909.
• Cunha, Euclides da, 1866-1909 — Travel — Amazon River Region.
• Brazil — History — 1889-
• Amazon River Region — History — 19th century.
• Rio Branco, José Maria da Silva Paranhos Júnior, Barão do, 1845-1912.

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