Original publication date
2011
Publication
Monthly Review Press (2011), 416 pages
ISBN
1583672311 / 9781583672310
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CONTENTS
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
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