RIVER AMAZON
1. INTRODUCTION
In our imagination - The Lost World - Etymology - Facts and Figures
2. INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
History and culture - Exploitation and Resistance - Present day crisis of Peoples
and environment
3. EUROPEANS
Arrival - Spain and Portugal - End of Colonial Rule - Exploitation of indigenous
Peoples - Quinine - Rubber - Fordlandia - City of Manaus
The 1930s began in New York on the 29th October 1929 with The Wall Street Crash. The ripples spread our across the world. Britain, like The States, found itself with a severe economic crisis and a l
The Twenties One might be forgiven for thinking that with all the 'modern' changes to life, from radio broadcasts to the 'talkies', from the first Labour Government to expansion of car ownership, that
The People (Working Class history, 20th century) Selina Todd The InterWar Years Robert Freeman (short pamphlet) Britain in the 1920s Fiona McDonald The Twentieth Century RH Mottra