Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber : A Study in Environmental History
by
Warren Dean
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in Environment and History
ISBN-10
0521334772
ISBN-13
9780521334778
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 28th, 1987
Print length
252 Pages
Weight
530 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.20 x 2.30 cms
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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.
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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