@article{438757,
      recid = {438757},
      author = {Tully, John A.},
      title = {The devil's milk a social history of rubber / [electronic  resource] :},
      publisher = {Monthly Review Press,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {1 online resource (480 p.) :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {Capital, as Marx once wrote, comes into the world  "dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood  and dirt." He might well have been describing the long,  grim history of rubber. From the early stages of primitive  accumulation to the heights of the industrial revolution  and beyond, rubber is one of a handful of commodities that  has played a crucial role in shaping the modern world, and  yet laboring people around the globe have every reason to  regard it as "the devil's milk." All the advancements made  possible by rubber industrial machinery, telegraph  technology, medical equipment, countless consumer goods  have occurred against a backdrop of seemingly endless  exploitation, conquest, slavery, and war. But, as John  Tully reminds us, the vast terrain of rubber production has  always been a site of struggle, and the oppressed who toil  closest to "the devil's milk" in all its forms have never  accepted their immiscration without a fight. This book, the  product of exhaustive scholarship carried out in many  countries and on several continents, is destined to become  a classic. With the skill of a master historian and the  elegance of a novelist, Tully presents what amounts to a  history of the modern world told through the multiple lives  of rubber. --Book Jacket.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/438757},
}