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Dean, Warren

 
9780521334778: Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber: A Study in Environmental History
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ISBN 10 : 0521334772 ISBN 13 : 9780521334778
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1987

Synopsis

An environmental explanation of Brazil's repeated failures to re-establish itself as a leading rubber producer.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

"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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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1987
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521334772
ISBN 13 
9780521334778
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
252
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
Avery
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9780521526920: Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521526922 ISBN 13 :  9780521526920
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010
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