[PDF] Brazil And The Struggle For Rubber eBook

Author : Warren Dean
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 2002-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521526920

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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.

Author : Warren Dean
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 33,61 MB
Release : 1997-04-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520208862

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"An unprecedented historical account of the destruction of Brazil's Atlantic Forest, a required reading for those committed to its preservation, written with genuine love and knowledge."—José Roberto Borges, Brazil Program Director, Rainforest Action Network "After reading this volume, no one could fail to realize the uniqueness and importance of these coastal forests, which have played such a fascinating role in the history of Brazil."—Ghillean T. Prance, Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Author : Charles Edmond Akers
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 19,30 MB
Release : 2016-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781333482824

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Excerpt from The Rubber Industry in Brazil and the Orient The Brazilian situation differs widely from that of the Eastern plantations. The problems to be faced in the Amazon Valley are a Cheaper labour-supply, reduced taxation, and better administration. On those three factors depend the future existence Of the Brazilian rubber industry; and unless some satisfactory solution of these difficulties be found, the production will diminish rapidly in the near future, and soon cease to in uence the world's market. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Author : Warren Dean
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 31,26 MB
Release : 1997-04-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520919082

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Warren Dean chronicles the chaotic path to what could be one of the greatest natural disasters of modern times: the disappearance of the Atlantic Forest. A quarter the size of the Amazon Forest, and the most densely populated region in Brazil, the Atlantic Forest is now the most endangered in the world. It contains a great diversity of life forms, some of them found nowhere else, as well as the country's largest cities, plantations, mines, and industries. Continual clearing is ravaging most of the forested remnants. Dean opens his story with the hunter-gatherers of twelve thousand years ago and takes it up to the 1990s—through the invasion of Europeans in the sixteenth century; the ensuing devastation wrought by such developments as gold and diamond mining, slash-and-burn farming, coffee planting, and industrialization; and the desperate battles between conservationists and developers in the late twentieth century. Based on a great range of documentary and scientific resources,With Broadax and Firebrand is an enormously ambitious book. More than a history of a tropical forest, or of the relationship between forest and humans, it is also a history of Brazil told from an environmental perspective. Dean writes passionately and movingly, in the fierce hope that the story of the Atlantic Forest will serve as a warning of the terrible costs of destroying its great neighbor to the west, the Amazon Forest.

Author : Antonio Joaquim Souza Carneiro
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,18 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Exposicʹao Nacional de Borracha
ISBN :

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Rubber and gutta-percha producing plants. Yield of tapped trees. Raw rubber.

Author : Seth Garfield
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 10,46 MB
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 0822377179

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Chronicling the dramatic history of the Brazilian Amazon during the Second World War, Seth Garfield provides fresh perspectives on contemporary environmental debates. His multifaceted analysis explains how the Amazon became the object of geopolitical rivalries, state planning, media coverage, popular fascination, and social conflict. In need of rubber, a vital war material, the United States spent millions of dollars to revive the Amazon's rubber trade. In the name of development and national security, Brazilian officials implemented public programs to engineer the hinterland's transformation. Migrants from Brazil's drought-stricken Northeast flocked to the Amazon in search of work. In defense of traditional ways of life, longtime Amazon residents sought to temper outside intervention. Garfield's environmental history offers an integrated analysis of the struggles among distinct social groups over resources and power in the Amazon, as well as the repercussions of those wartime conflicts in the decades to come.

Author : Joe Jackson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,8 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780670018536

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JACKSON/THIEF AT THE END OF THE WOR