This article proposes an interpretation on the way of life of the
“soldiers of the rubber”, which were Brazilians who had acted in the Second
World War. They were recruited by the Brazilian government, which is taking
advantage of the problems faced by northeasterners; recruit thousands of them
to go to the Amazon working on the extraction of latex, which would be
exported to the United States to support the government and its allies in
the war. With the entry of the Americans in the war, and with the taking
of Malaysia by Japan, who was with the hegemony of the rubber during
that period, Brazil was the only one able to provide this material. Within the performance Brazilian in Second War were on the scene over 70 thousand
soldiers, about 25,000 members of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force and a
little more than 55,000 soldiers who served in the extraction of latex. By means
of material culture can identify information on the way of life for the soldiers
of the rubber in the rubber plantations in the north of Brazil, It confirmed the
intense adversity found.
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