Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber A Study in Environmental History

Klappentext An environmental explanation of Brazil's repeated failures to re-establish itself as a leading rubber producer. Zusammenfassung Brazil once enjoyed a near monopoly in rubber when the commodity was gathered in the wild. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Alfred W. Crosby (Editor), Donald Worster (Editor)
• Authors: Warren Dean, Warren (New York University) Dean
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 04.07.2002
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9780521526920
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52692-0
• Pages: 252
• Series: Studies in Environment and His