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A world history of rubber : empire, industry, and the everyday
- Title
- A world history of rubber : empire, industry, and the everyday / Stephen L. Harp.
- Author
- Harp, Stephen L.
- Publication
- Chichester, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley Blackwell, 2016.
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 162 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-156) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JBD 16-245
- ISBN
- 9781118934234 (cloth)
- 1118934237 (cloth)
- 9781118934227 (paperback)
- 1118934229 (paperback)
- LCCN
- 2015021086
- OCLC
- 910538302
- Author
- Harp, Stephen L., author.
- Title
- A world history of rubber : empire, industry, and the everyday / Stephen L. Harp.
- Publisher
- Chichester, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley Blackwell, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-156) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Harp, Stephen L., author. World history of rubber Chichester, UK ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons, 2016 9781118934241
- Research Call Number
- JBD 16-245