A world history of rubber : empire, industry, and the everyday / Stephen L. Harp.

Author/creator Harp, Stephen L. author.
Format Book
PublicationChichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA, USA : John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2016.
Copyright Date©2016
Descriptionxviii, 162 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents Machine generated contents note: Global Connections -- 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 -- 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 Woman -- Gendered Production in the United States and Europe -- Rubber and Sex in Indochine -- 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 -- 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 -- 5.Resistance and Independence -- Plantations and Resistance -- Global Economic Crisis and Plantation Labor -- Success of the Smallholders -- Plantations under the Japanese -- Independence and Decolonization -- United Rubber Workers.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Harp, Stephen L., author. World history of rubber. Chichester, UK ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons, 2016 9781118934241
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2015021086
ISBN9781118934234 (hardcover)
ISBN1118934237 (hardcover)
ISBN9781118934227 (paperback)
ISBN1118934229 (paperback)

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Joyner General Stacks HD9161 .A2 H37 2016 ✔ Available Place Hold