Notes - The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha - page 420

106. Da Cunha and Gomes, Quase-cidadão ; Gomes, Hidra e os pântanos ; Gomes, “Safe Haven.”
107. Acevedo Marin and de Castro, Negros do Trombetas .
108. Coudreau, Voyage au Cuminá ; Gomes, “Fronteiras e mocambos”; Gomes, Hidra e os
Pântanos .
109. De Rivière, “Explorations of the rubber districts of Bolivia.”
110. Torres and Martine, Amazonian Extractivism.
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*1. Greater Amazonia includes the Orinoco.
*2. Thesetwoyoungnoblemenwereablecollectors,amassingmorethansixty-fivehundredbotanical
specimens.
1. Da Cunha, “Relatorio de Comissão Mixta Brasileira-Peruana.”
2. Agassiz and Agassiz, Journey in Brazil ; Bates, Naturalist on the River Amazon ; Markham and
Blanchard, Markham in Peru ; Mathews, Up the Amazon and Madeira Rivers ; Orton, Andes and the
Amazon ; Pöppig, Viaje al Perú y al Río Amazonas ; von Humboldt, Bonpland, and Williams, Personal
Narrative ; von Spix and von Martius, Viagem pelo Brasil ; Wallace, Narrative of Travels .
3. And womanly courage: see Whitaker, The Mapmaker's Wife .
4. Safier, Measuring the New World .
5. Von Humboldt, Bonpland, and Williams, Personal Narrative; Weigl, “Between Technique and
Eroticism.”
6. Ibid .
7. Dettelbach, “Humboldtian Science”; Fagot, “World Consciousness”; Helferich, Humboldt's Cos-
mos ; Miller and Reill, Visions of Empire ; Zimmerer, “Humboldt's Nodes and Modes.” The sources of
von Humboldt's imaginary are also discussed in Cañizares-Esguerra, Nature, Empire, and Nation .
8. Coelho, “As viagens filosóphicas”; Falcão et al., Viagem filosófica ; Faulhaber and de Toledo,
Conhecimento e fronteira .
9. Driver, Geography Militant .
10. Schultes, “Richard Spruce”; Schultes, “Several Unpublished Ethnobotanical Notes.”
11. But see Rivière, Absent-Minded Imperialism .
12. Von Humboldt, Bonpland, and Williams, Personal Narrative . Von Martius, very interested in
native rights and ethnobotany, invoked a racial hierarchy as the best means to develop Brazil: whites
would serve as civilizers and indigenes must do what was necessary to retrieve their native dignity to
move toward civilization, while blacks, primitives, though capable of civilization, were stumbling
blocks to Brazil's development. This essay was in response to a contest sponsored by the Instituto
Histórico on “how to write the history of Brazil.” Lisboa, Nova Atlântida ; von Martius, “Como se deve
escrever.”
13. Park worked for the British Africa Company, Stanley for King Leopold, and Brazza for the
French crown.
14. The eighteenth-century imperial effort relied on economic botany and massive collection. Later
nineteenth-century efforts, though still engaged in extensive collection, sought to theorize the links in
more complex geographical ways. Schiebinger and Swan, Colonial Botany .
15. See Endersby, Imperial Nature .
16. The Jesuit Serafim Leite has compiled many of these documents in his monumental study
História de Companhia de Jesus no Brasil .