Notes - The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha - page 401

3. Betts, “Scramble” for Africa ; Pakenham, Scramble for Africa ; Wesseling and Pomerans, Divide
and Rule .
4. In his comparison of de la Condamine and Rodrigues Ferreira, Mauro Coelho points out that for
the latter Iberian scientific exploration was explicitly about its political ends, while de la Condamine
(at least publicly) was more concerned with Enlightenment models of abstract science. See Coelho,
“Viagens filosóphicas de Charles-Marie de la Condamine e Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira.” On
European scientific exploitation, see for example Drayton, Nature's Government ; Gifford and Louis,
France and Britain in Africa ; Miller and Reill, Visions of Empire ; Mills and Barton, Drugs and Em-
pires .
5. Daniel, Tesouro descoberto no máximo Rio Amazonas .
6. See da Cunha, “The Real and Mythological Geography of the Purús,” chap. 20 below.
7. The British Royal Geographical Society ran a training school in survey and fielded numerous
mappers and surveyors, including the Schomburgk brothers, Chandless, and Fawcett. One of the cent-
ral functions of military schools in Latin America (and especially Praia Vermelha) was to develop a
cadre of geographers and mappers. See Driver, Geography Militant .
8. The importance of Amazonian products like quinine certainly facilitated imperial expansion else-
where. See Webb, Humanity's Burden ; McNeill, Mosquito Empires.
9. Burnett, Masters of All They Surveyed ; Cortesão, História do Brasil nos velhos mapas . Cortesão
masterfully shows the territorial construction of Brazil through its imaginative cartographers who pro-
gressively pushed the Tordesillas line farther to the west. This idea is also developed in Costa, História
de um país inexistente .
10. Burnett, Masters of All They Surveyed . Also Rivière, Absent-Minded Imperialism .
11. See Cleary, “Lost Altogether to the Civilised World.”
12. Cortesão, História do Brasil nos velhos mapas ; Davidson, “How the Brazilian West Was Won.”
13. Cabeça de Vaca, Naufragios.
14. See Cortesão, História do Brasil nos velhos mapas .
15. Monteiro, Negros da terra ; Morse, Bandeirantes .
16. Heckenberger, Petersen, and Neves, “Of Lost Civilizations and Primitive Tribes.” Also see
Buarque de Holanda, Monsões .
17. Karasch, “Quilombos do Ouro”; Toral, “Indios Negros ou os Carijó de Goiás.”
18. See Block, Mission Culture on the Upper Amazon .
19. Davidson, “How the Brazilian West Was Won.”
20. Cortesão, História do Brasil nos velhos mapas ; de Gusmão and Cortesão, Alexandre de Gusmão .
21. Cortesão, Missão dos padres matemáticos .
22. Botelho Gosálvez, Proceso del imperialismo del Brasil ; Davidson, “How the Brazilian West Was
Won”; Varela Marcos, Vernet Ginés, Tratado de Tordesillas .
23. See Tambs, “Rubber, Rebels, and Rio Branco.”
24. Fifer, “Bolivia's Boundary with Brazil”; Tocantins, Formação histórica do Acre .
25. Da Cunha's writings on this topic involve eight newspaper articles from 1906 that were later re-
published (and almost instantly translated into Spanish): da Cunha, Peru versus Bolívia .
26. Benton, Law and Colonial Cultures .
27. Moore, Principles of American Diplomacy .
28. Burns, Unwritten Alliance .
29. Quevedo dos Santos, Guerreiros e Jesuítas ; Ganson, Guaraní under Spanish Rule .
30. Seed, Ceremonies of Possession .