Border and progress : the Amazon and the estado novo -- "The quicksands of untrustworthy supply" : U.S. rubber dependency and the lure of the Amazon -- Rubber's "soldiers" : reinventing the Amazonian worker -- The environment of northeastern migration to the Amazon : landscapes, labor, and love...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations in the Text -- Introduction -- Part I. Red Earth, Gray Earth -- Chapter One. Civilizing Latex -- Part II. Forests without Birds -- Chapter Two. Cultivating Science -- Chapter Three. Managing Disease -- Chapter Four. Turning Tropical -- Part...