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Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber

Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber
A Study in Environmental History

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Part of Studies in Environment and History

  • Date Published: July 2002
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521526920

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  • Brazil once enjoyed a near monopoly in rubber when the commodity was gathered in the wild. By 1913, however, cultivated rubber in South-east Asia swept the Brazilian gathered product from the market. In this innovative study, Warren Dean demonstrates that environmental factors have played a key role in the many failed attempts to produce a significant rubber crop again in Brazil. In the Amazon attempts to shift to cultivated rubber failed repeatedly. Brazilian social and economic conditions have been blamed for these failures, in particular the failure of local capitalists and the refusal of the working class to accept wage labour. Dean shows in this study, however, that the difficulty was mainly ecological: the rubber tree in the wild lives in close association with a parasitic leaf fungus; when the tree was planted in close stands, the blight appeared in epidemic proportions.

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    • Date Published: July 2002
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521526920
    • length: 252 pages
    • dimensions: 228 x 150 x 16 mm
    • weight: 0.382kg
    • contains: 9 b/w illus. 1 map 2 tables
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Explanatory notes
    Abbreviations
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction
    1. Prometheus in reverse, 1855–1876
    2. Awaiting developments, 1876–1906
    3. Production and folklore, 1876–1910
    4. The reason why, 1904–1923
    5. A jump in the dark, 1923–1940
    6. The battle for rubber, 1940–1945
    7. Administrative discontinuities, 1946–1961
    8. Complete perplexity, 1961–1972
    9. Economically guaranteed, 1973–1986
    Conclusion
    Appendix
    Notes
    Glossary
    Index.

  • Author

    Warren Dean, New York University

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