The devil's milk a social history of rubber
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Monthly Review Press
c2011
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-387) and index Rubber in Mesoamerican civilizations -- Rubber in the industrial revolution -- The dark side of the rubber revolution -- The Amazon rubber boom -- The lives of the Seringueiros -- There is no sin beyond the equator -- Heart of darkness: rubber and blood on the Congo -- Gutta-Percha, telegraphs, imperialism, and ecology -- "Rubber's home town" -- The 1913 IWW strike at Akron -- Sisters, brothers, unite! The Rubber Workers' Union in Akron -- The triumph of Plantation Hevea -- The planters' world -- The coolie diaspora -- The coolies' world -- Coolie revolts -- The long road to Monowitz -- Monowitz: "a bulwark of Germandom" -- The only way out is up the chimney -- The allied struggle for rubber in the Second World War -- War is good for business |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (480 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9781583672600 1583672605 9781583672310 1583672311 9781583672327 158367232X |