The devil's milk [electronic resource] : a social history of rubber / by John Tully.
Tully, John A. (John Andrew)
2011
HD9161.A2 T85 2011eb
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Title The devil's milk [electronic resource] : a social history of rubber / by John Tully.
Author Tully, John A. (John Andrew)
ISBN 9781583672600 (electronic bk.)
9781583672310
1583672311
9781583672327
158367232X
Publication Details New York : Monthly Review Press, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (480 p.) : ill.
Call Number HD9161.A2 T85 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.4/7678209
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Rubber in Mesoamerican civilizations
Rubber in the industrial revolution
The dark side of the rubber revolution
The Amazon rubber boom
The lives of the Seringueiros
There is no sin beyond the equator
Heart of darkness: rubber and blood on the Congo
Gutta-Percha, telegraphs, imperialism, and ecology
"Rubber's home town"
The 1913 IWW strike at Akron
Sisters, brothers, unite! The Rubber Workers' Union in Akron
The triumph of Plantation Hevea
The planters' world
The coolie diaspora
The coolies' world
Coolie revolts
The long road to Monowitz
Monowitz: "a bulwark of Germandom"
The only way out is up the chimney
The allied struggle for rubber in the Second World War
War is good for business.

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