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      • As the rubber market expanded, the production economy underwent a radical global shift from Brazil to Southeast Asia, ignited by a scandalous seed theft. One monopoly replaced another as the plantation model flourished and rubber was traded as a global commodity on an unprecedented scale.
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  2. Oct 6, 2020 · As the rubber market expanded, the production economy underwent a radical global shift from Brazil to Southeast Asia, ignited by a scandalous seed theft. One monopoly replaced another as the plantation model flourished and rubber was traded as a global commodity on an unprecedented scale.

  3. Jan 1, 1992 · In India, were received in 1878, from Sri Lanka. It was in fact Sri Lanka the centre of early activity, the Heneratgoda Botanic Gardens was in Colombo becoming a major source of rubber seeds, for domestic use and also for export.

    • K.P. Jones, P.W. Allen
    • 1992
  4. A World History of Rubber helps readers understand and gain new insights into the social and cultural contexts of global production and consumption, from the nineteenth century to today,...

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  5. The natural rubber trade underwent several radical transformations over the period 1870 to 1930. First, prior to 1910, it was associated with high costs of production and high prices for final goods; most rubber was produced, during this period, by tapping rubber trees in the Amazon region of Brazil.

  6. The trade in rubber was unimportant, however, until the late 1830s, when it was discovered simultaneously in Great Britain and the United States that rubber could be made to retain its elasticity by mixing it with sulphur and heating it.

  7. The history of rubber as a commodity begins with the European conquest of the Western hemisphere. Ships began to transport this strange substance back to Europe, creating intense interest and excitement about its potential uses.

  8. Jun 20, 2019 · This chapter presents a comparative historical analysis of the processes of labour commodification during the rubber boom period in two major rubber producing regions between the 1870s and the 1910s: Western Amazonia and the Congo Free State.

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