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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface Why a Book on Rubber?
Introduction The Muscles and Sinews of Industrial Society
Part One From the sacred essence of life to the muscles and sinews of industrial society
1. Rubber in Mesoamerican Civilizations
2. Rubber in the Industrial Revolution
3. The Dark Side of the Rubber Revolution
Part Two Wild rubber: a primitive “mode of extraction”
4. The Amazon Rubber Boom
5. The Lives of the Seringueiros
6. There is No Sin Beyond the Equator
7. Heart of Darkness: Rubber and Blood on the Congo
8. Gutta-Percha, Telegraphs, Imperialism, and Ecology
Part Three Monopoly capitalism in Akron
9. “Rubber’s Home Town”
10. The 1913 IWW Strike at Akron
11. Sisters, Brothers, Unite! The Rubber Workers’ Union in Akron
Part Four Plantation hevea: agribusiness and imperialism
12. The Triumph of Plantation Hevea
13. The Planters’ World
14. The Coolie Diaspora
15. The Coolies’ World
16. Coolie Revolts
Part Five Synthetic rubber, war and autarky
17. The Long Road to Monowitz
18. Monowitz: “A Bulwark of Germandom”
19. The Only Way Out Is Up the Chimney
20. The Allied Struggle for Rubber in the Second World War
21. War Is Good for Business
Epilogue Rubber in the Postwar World
Bibliography
Notes
Index
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