Exploration of the valley of the Amazon,

Herndon, William Lewis; Gibbon, Lardner

doi:10.5962/bhl.title.78763

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“…Maury, with that purpose in mind, secretly sent William Herndon to the Amazon, asking him to describe everything that could serve the Southern interests. The result of those observations was the bestseller Twain had in hand, Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon (1853), a sort of Manifest Destiny pointed to the South, urging the union, "like two brothers," between the Amazon and the Mississippi Valleys (Herndon;Machado, 2006). Gerald Horne calls this vector of expansion "the Deepest South."…”

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William James and the Deepest South

Mendes¹

2022

transatlantica

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William James and the Deepest South

Mendes¹

2022

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“…Tahuamanu has long benefitted from closer relationships with western Brazil than with government departments and agencies in Peru. Brazil has sought trade with Peru since the late eighteenth century, when river traders from Brazil exchanged crude manufactured goods such as steel and clothing for Peruvian salted fish, wood resins, balsams, and wax [59]. Transport infrastructure long consisted of dirt roads and mule trails, which were passable only during the dry season.…”

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Regional Deforestation Trends within Local Realities: Land-Cover Change in Southeastern Peru 1996–2011

Michaelsen

Briceño

Menis

et al. 2013

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Estimating deforested areas and deforestation rates have become key steps for quantifying environmental services of tropical rain forests, particularly as linked to programs such as Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). In Southeastern Peru, reliable estimates of land-cover change (LCC) are important for monitoring changes in the landscape due to agricultural expansion, pasture creation and other socio-economic influences triggered by the Inter-Oceanic Highway (IOH). Our study reports a land-use/land-cover change (LULCC) analysis during a 15-year period from 1996 to 2011 in the Province of Tahuamanu, Madre de Dios. We draw on multiple years of observations of LULCC to relate changes in land cover to the use of natural resources (pasture, timber, crops and forest products) and tenure types based on their distances from OPEN ACCESS Land 2013, 2 132 the highway and the Tahuamanu River. We are able to distinguish titled areas for agriculture close to the IOH from other land tenure types such as timber concessions. The findings show that LULCC varies among different types of land tenure and by distance from the highway. Agricultural areas close to transportation infrastructure within 1 km to 5 km buffers have gradually increased in non-forest areas, whereas timber concession areas away from 1 km buffer of secondary roads have maintained forest cover. Riverine settlements show a similar distance effect in forest clearance along rivers as along roads.

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