Stephen Nugent

The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry

An Historical Anthropology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining rubber in the Amazon from the perspective of a long-term (one hundred years) extractive industry that linked remote forest tappers to technical innovations central to the industrial transformation of Europe and North America, the book emphasizes the links between the social landscape of Amazonia and the global economy. This book should be required reading for all those interested in the Amazon, and will be relevant to scholars of anthropology, political ecology, geography, history of Latin America, the industrial revolution, and development studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781138894020
• ISBN-10: 1138894028
• Artikelnr.: 50363472

Autorenporträt

Stephen L. Nugent is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: The Amazon Rubber Boom, Tapping into the Past 1. Requiem for the
Amazon Rubber Boom 2. This Substance Called Rubber: Hevea and Its Relations
3. Anthropological Rubber in the Amazon 4. Postcards from El Dorado: an
overview of historical accounts of the rubber industry 5. Embedded Tropes
and the Shift of Time 6. Failure as a Stage of Modernization, Part one:
Narratives of failure 7. Failure as a Stage of Modernization, Part two:
Modernity redux, the failure of Fordlândia 8. After the Wild Frontier 9.
The Melancholy and the Modern 10. Rubber in London 11. Concluding Comments