The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry - An Historical Anthropology - Bog af Stephen Nugent - Hardback

The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry - An Historical Anthropology - Stephen Nugent

In this engaging book, Stephen Nugent offers an in-depth historical anthropology of a widely recognised feature of the Amazon region, examining the dramatic rise and fall of the rubber industry. He considers rubber in the Amazon from the perspective of a long-term extractive industry that linked remote forest tappers to technical innovations central to the industrial transformation of Europe and North America, emphasizing the links between the social landscape of Amazonia and the global economy...