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The Devilas Milk - A Social History of Rubber (Hardcover)
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The Devilas Milk - A Social History of Rubber (Hardcover)
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A history of the modern world told through the multiple lives of
rubber Capital, as Marx once wrote, comes into the world "dripping
from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt." He might
well have been describing the long, grim history of rubber. From
the early stages of primitive accumulation to the heights of the
industrial revolution and beyond, rubber is one of a handful of
commodities that has played a crucial role in shaping the modern
world, and yet, as John Tully shows in this remarkable book,
laboring people around the globe have every reason to regard it as
"the devil's milk." All the advancements made possible by
rubber--industrial machinery, telegraph technology, medical
equipment, countless consumer goods--have occurred against a
backdrop of seemingly endless exploitation, conquest, slavery, and
war. But Tully is quick to remind us that the vast terrain of
rubber production has always been a site of struggle, and that the
oppressed who toil closest to "the devil's milk" in all its forms
have never accepted their immiseration without a fight. 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 little as outside its range
without losing sight of the commodity in question. With the skill
of a master historian and the elegance of a novelist, he presents
what amounts to a history of the modern world told through the
multiple lives of rubber.
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