SPAN 44 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Peruvian Amazon Company, Amazon Rubber Boom, Peruvian Amazon
Document Summary
Midterm exam goes over everything till this thursday. A revised syllabus has been uploaded on ccle. The swan will be moved to next tuesday. Video shown in class, was the musical number of a movie from 1943. Its an example of how hollywood and united states imagined latin american productions. Contrast production of rubber, coffee, bananas and the imagination from the place of consumption of the products. Produced in latin america and were mass sent to the americas for a cheap price. The dynamics of the latin american continent from the 1870-1930. Economic basis, it"s known as the export economy. Rubber transported through navigation system , iquitos, belem and manaus. At this time american needed rubber for their automotives. The structure was supported by national states and the british and american. Brazil was the richest and biggest was seen as a threat. Population b4 was small, immigrant from spain china morocco etc.
