The Amazon : land without history Book , Print in English
2006.
"In the eight pieces that make up The Amazon: Land Without History, which was first published in Portuguese in 1909, Euclides da Cunha offers a rare look into twentieth century Amazonia and the consolidation of South American nation states. They are written in the same…
Eisenhower M Level Reserves
Long Overdue/Lost
Due: Aug 31 2022 09:54 AM
F2546.C938 2006
c. 1
Chuva é Cantoria na Aldeia dos Mortos = Le chant de la forêt Video/Film , DVD in South American Indian (Other) , Portuguese
2019
Eisenhower M Level Reserves
- Must be used with international DVD player.
Transit
F2520.1.C67 C48 2019
c. 1
Fordlandia : the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city Book , Print in English
2009.
The stunning, never-before-told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon, "Fordlandia" depicts a desperate quest to salvage the bygone America that the Ford factory system did much to dispatch.
Eisenhower B Level
Lost Recall
Due: Feb 23 2022
F2651.F55 G72 2009
c. 1
The inconstancy of the Indian soul : the encounter of Catholics and cannibals in 16th-century Brazil Book , Print in English
©2011.
In the mid-sixteenth century, Jesuit missionaries working in what is now Brazil were struck by what they called the inconstancy of the people they met, the indigenous Tupi-speaking tribes of the Atlantic coast. Though the Indians appeared eager to receive the Gospel, they also…
Eisenhower M Level Reserves
Available
F2520.1.T94 C3713 2011
c. 1
The scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost paradise" of Euclides da Cunha Book , Print in English
2013
The fortunes of the late nineteenth century's imperial and industrial powers depended on a single raw material - rubber - with only one source: the Amazon basin. And so began the scramble for the Amazon - a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, Belgium, and the United…
Eisenhower M Level Reserves
Available
F2537.C97554 H33 2013
c. 1
Tree of rivers : the story of the Amazon Book , Print in English
2009.
By far the world's largest river, the Amazon flows through the greatest expanse of tropical rain forest on earth. Human beings settled in Amazonia ten thousand years ago and learned to live well on its bounty. Europeans first saw it around 1500 and started settling there in the…
Eisenhower M Level Reserves
Available
F2546 .H46 2009
c. 1
Tristes tropiques Book , Print in English
©2012.
This watershed work records Claude Lévi-Strauss's search for "a human society reduced to its most basic expression." From the Amazon basin through the dense upland jungles of Brazil, Lévi-Strauss found the societies he was seeking among the Caduveo, Bororo, Nambikwara, and…
Eisenhower M Level Reserves
Available
F2520.L4813 2012
c. 1