An edition of The scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost paradise" of Euclides da Cunha
(2013)
The scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost paradise" of Euclides da Cunha
by Susanna B. Hecht
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The scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost paradise" of Euclides da Cunha
2013, University of Chicago Press
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0226322815 9780226322810
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Table of Contents
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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