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A world history of rubber : empire, industry, and the everyday
Yazar:
Harp, Stephen L., author.
ISBN:
9781118934234

9781118934227
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
xviii, 162 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
İçerik:
Title Page ; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Timeline; Global Rubber and Tire Companies; Introduction: Why Rubber?; Chapter 1 Race, Migration, and Labor; "Wild Rubber" and Early Industry; "Wild Rubber" and Empire; Plantations' Progress: "Rationality and Efficiency"; Plantation Hierarchies; Race and Industry in the United States and Europe; READING; Working and Living on the Mimot Plantation in Cambodia; Notes; Chapter 2 Women and Gender on Plantations and in Factories ; Gendering the Jungle and the Plantation; Asian Women on Plantations; European Women and Racism. The Colonizing WomanGendered Production in the United States and Europe; Rubber and Sex in Indochine; READING; Women Workers, Gender, and Beatings; Notes; Chapter 3 Demand and Everyday Consumption ; Everyday Consumption on Southeast Asian Plantations; Class and Consumption in North America and Europe; Race and Consumption in Europe and North America; Gender and Consumption in Europe and North America; Gendering Reproduction; READING; The Romance and Drama of the Rubber Industry, Harvey S. Firestone, Jr.; Notes; Chapter 4 World Wars, Nationalism, and Imperialism ; World War I. "See America First" on "Good Roads"Flying for the Nation; Restricting Rubber in the Wake of War; American Assertions: Herbert Hoover and US Trade; Firestone and Friends; Firestone in Liberia; Germany: Colonies and Chemicals; World War II and the US Scramble for Rubber; Nazi Racism and Buna at Auschwitz; Imperialism and Nationalism in the Wake of World War II; READING; Life, Work, and Death at Buna Monowitz; Notes; Chapter 5 Resistance and Independence ; Plantations and Resistance; Global Economic Crisis and Plantation Labor; Success of the Smallholders; Plantations under the Japanese. Independence and DecolonizationUnited Rubber Workers; READING; Describing Smallholders in the Dutch East Indies; READING; Explaining Indigenous Resistance; Notes; Conclusion: Forgetting and Remembering Rubber; Suggested Readings; Index; EULA.
Özet:
A World History of Rubber helps readers understand and gain new insights into the social and cultural contexts of global production and consumption, from the nineteenth century to today, through the fascinating story of one commodity.
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Kitap EKOBKN0010584 338.476782 HAR 2016
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