Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber

A Study in Environmental History

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Hardcover | 21 December 1987

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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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"Dean has written a lucid and solidly researched account of how a particular plant disease prevented the development of an important branch of agriculture in one country, thereby affecting its economic development, Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber is warmly recommended as a perceptive study of the relationship between humans and their environment." ISIS "In his sophisticated integration of ecological concepts into a socioeconomic history of rubber cultivation, Dean sets a high standard." Martin T. Katzman, American Historical Review "Warren Dean spins a good tale and draws some insightful conclusions about the limits of human ability to manipulate the environment." Report on the Americas

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Explanatory notes
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prometheus in reverse, 1855+1876
Awaiting developments, 1876+1906
Production and folklore, 1876+1910
The reason why, 1904+1923
A jump in the dark, 1923+1940
The battle for rubber, 1940+1945
Administrative discontinuities, 1946+1961
Complete perplexity, 1961+1972
Economically guaranteed, 1973+1986
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Glossary
Index
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Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber

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