The Devil's Milk: A Social History of Rubber

Author:   John Tully
Publisher:   Monthly Review Press,U.S.
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9781583672310


Pages:   416
Publication Date:   01 February 2011
Format:   Paperback
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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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Author:   John Tully
Publisher:   Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.658kg
ISBN:  

9781583672310


ISBN 10:   1583672311
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   01 February 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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<p> What people did to rubber was interesting, but more interesting still was what rubber did to people. <br>


What people did to rubber was interesting, but more interesting still was what rubber did to people. -Vicki Baum, Novelist


<p> Think of our industrial structure as a living thing, the skeleton of which is composed of metal and cement, the arterial system of which carries a life stream of oil, and the flexing muscles and sinews of which are of rubber. <br>-Paul Litchfield, Former President of Goodyear


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Dr. John Tully is lecturer in politics and internationalstudies at Victoria University in Melbourne Australia. He is author of four books: Cambodia Under the Tricolour: King Sisowath and the 'Mission Civilisatrice, 1904-1927; France on the Mekong: A History of the Protectorate in Cambodia, 1863-1953; A Short History of Cambodia: From Empire to Survival; and a novel, Death Is the Cool Night.

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