Brazil and the struggle for rubber a study in environmental history /

Brazil once enjoyed a near monopoly in rubber when that commodity was gathered in the wild. By 1913, however, cultivated rubber from Southeast Asia swept the Brazilian gathered product from the market. In this innovative study, Warren Dean demonstrates that environmental factors have played a key ro...

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Main Author: Dean, Warren.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : 1987.
Physical Description: xv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series: Studies in environment and history.
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