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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Rubber Boom"”.
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Civilized people in uncivilized places : rubber, race, and civilization during the Amazonian rubber boom
… to become civilized began to be questioned.Rubber, an increasingly important and lucrative imperial resource at the end of the nineteenth century, brought people from around the world to the Amazon basin. This resulted in the creation of a “contact zone” of different peoples, cultures, and …
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Migrants and the Brazilian boom-city: Manaus from 1850 to 1940
… nineteenth and early twentieth century Amazon rubber-boom fueled a rapid economic and population growth in Amazonian port societies. In Brazil, the revenue of rubber exports was used to counterbalance the cyclical fluctuations in the national government’s revenue from coffee exports. It also …
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Calculando la Amazonía: Ficciones ecológicas y distopías numéricas sobre el boom del caucho en Perú, Colombia y Brasil, siglos xix-xxi
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01