The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry: An Historical Anthropology

Examining rubber in the Amazon from the perspective of a long-term (one hundred years) extractive industry that linked remote forest tappers to technical innovations central to the industrial transformation of Europe and North America, the book emphasizes the links between the social landscape of Amazonia and the global economy. This book should be required reading for all those interested in the Amazon, and will be relevant to scholars of anthropology, political ecology, geography, history of Latin America, the industrial revolution, and development studies.

Author: Stephen Nugent
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12/05/2017
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.48d
ISBN: 9781138894037

About the Author

Stephen L. Nugent is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.