The Commerce in Rubber - Couverture rigide

Coates, Austin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195888685 ISBN 13 : 9780195888683

Editeur : OUP Australia and New Zealand, 1996

Synopsis

In itself, rubber is a dramatic subject; and the history of rubber and the trade in it, embracing as it does five continents over a period of 250 years, is of compelling interest. This book is a history of the rubber trade going back to the beginnings, and to original sources. It starts with the discovery of rubber in Brazil and describes some of the early industrial uses made of it in France, Britain and the USA. The story then moves across the world to India, Burma, Ceylon, Singapore, Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, where plantation cultivation gradually took hold from the 1870s, to portray in detail the commercial aspects of the market, with its booms and slumps, during the first part of this century. Finally, the years following World War II are recorded, when natural rubber struggled for commercial existence against the challenge of synthetic, a struggle which centred on the two giant producers, Malaysia and Indonesia, and on Singapore, the world centre of the rubber trade. Thus chapter by chapter, the author traces the history of rubber and the trade in it from its first emergence in Brazil in 1735 to the present day.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: OUP Australia and New Zealand
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195888685
• ISBN 13: 9780195888683
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 424
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Messaggerie Libri ; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8; Assago Milano; Italie