Brazil and the struggle for rubber : a study in environmental history
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書誌事項
Brazil and the struggle for rubber : a study in environmental history
(Studies in environment and history)
Cambridge University Press, 2002
- : pbk
大学図書館所蔵 全3件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
- 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.
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