10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WILD RUBBER»
Discover the use of
wild rubber in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
wild rubber and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Devil's Milk: A Social History of
Rubber
This book, the product of exhaustive scholarship carried out in many countries and several continents, is destined to become a classic.Tully tells the story of humanity's long encounter with rubber in a kaleidoscopic narrative that regards ...
The war has put Brazil back into rubber production and, though its 300,000,000
wild rubber trees in the Amazon valley can produce only a fraction of U. S. needs,
their output is so essential to the U. S. war effort that air transport to the U. S. is ...
3
Brazil and the Struggle for
Rubber: A Study in Environmental ...
An environmental explanation of Brazil's repeated failures to re-establish itself as a leading rubber producer.
4
Diagnosing
Wild Species Harvest: Resource Use and Conservation
However, de la Condamine was the first European scientist to describe the use of
this material in the Amazonian context, and although he was not precise on the
different species and types of wild rubber used by the native Amazonians ...
Matti Salo, Anders Sirén, Risto Kalliola, 2013
5
World
Rubber and its Regulation
Klaus Eugen Knorr. shrub made its appearance as a new source of wild rubber
and contributed 9,000 tons in 1910. Two years later the total wild- rubber output
attained its all-time peak with over 70,000 tons, of which 42,000 came from Brazil.
6
Geography For Upsc Prelims, 3E
Although the wild rubber collection was becoming less and less productive, the
people of Brazil did not start rubber plantations. Before the native producers
realised the potential of rubber plantations, competition from the Asian region
had ...
7
The Emerging States of French Equatorial Africa
Wild rubber grows abundantly in the forest regions of Gabon, Moyen- Congo, and
Oubangui. After the turn of the century, this product began to replace ivory as
AEF's main export, and in 191 1 it represented 62 per cent of the federation's total
...
Virginia Thompson, Richard Adloff, 1960
8
Colonialism: an international, social, cultural, and ...
At first, the rubber industry depended on the collection of wild rubber from all
sorts of tropical latex-bearing plants. The rubber boom swept Brazil's Amazon
Basin and the Congo Free State of King Leopold. Indigenous Indians and
Africans ...
Melvin Eugene Page, Penny M. Sonnenburg, 2003
9
Analysis of
Rubber and
Rubber-like Polymers
Without the wild rubber of America and Africa the world of 1914 would have been
a very different place. By 1914 the world's output of plantation rubber had
equalled that of wild rubber and by 1918, plantation rubber was the only natural
way ...
10
Giant Molecules: Essential Materials for Everyday Living and ...
The only major source of rubber in the nineteenth century was the wild rubber
tree from Brazil, Central America, the west coast of Africa, and Madagascar.
However, this supply was insufficient to meet the demands brought on by the ...
Charles E. Carraher, 2003
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WILD RUBBER»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
wild rubber is used in the context of the following news items.
Amazonian Wild Rubber: A Vehicle for Green Economics
I spent a week in the Brazilian Amazon to explore the Amazonian wild rubber industry as ambassador for Sky Rainforest Rescue - Sky's partnership with WWF to ... «Huffington Post UK, Jun 13»
Protect the rainforest with Lily Cole's Wild Rubber jewellery
It aims to raise awareness of the versatility of Amazonian wild rubber, which gives people in Acre an alternative source of income that keeps the trees standing. «WWF-UK, Jun 13»
Wild rubber bling
The limited edition collection of earrings, pendants and rings is made with Amazonian wild rubber sourced by rubber tappers in the Sky Rainforest Rescue ... «The Ecologist, Jun 13»
Horrific treatment of Amazon Indians exposed 100 years ago today
Agents of the company rounded up dozens of Indian tribes in the western Amazon to collect wild rubber for the European and American markets. In a few short ... «Survival International, Mar 11»
Tapping a global market
Although it is a widely traded bulk commodity, the history of natural rubber is remarkably short, dating only to 1876, when seeds of the wild rubber tree were ... «Financial Times, Sep 10»
Bia Saldanha: Cultivating Wild Rubber in the Amazon
The Amazon is not just under threat from soy cultivation and cattle ranching, it's the only place on earth where rubber trees grow in a wild state. Bia Saldanha ... «WorldChanging, Aug 10»
