Plantation Crops, Plunder and Power
Author | : James F. Hancock |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2017-02-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781351977081 |
ISBN-13 | : 1351977083 |
Rating | : 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Coffee finds its way to Europe -- The monopoly ends -- Java coffee -- Ceylon coffee -- Robusta to the rescue -- Slavery and the rise of the Brazilian coffee industry -- Coffee farming in Brazil -- Coffee and repression in Guatemala -- The rest of Central America and Mexico -- Americans learn to love coffee -- The American coffee titan -- Coffee valorization in Brazil -- Colombian coffee hits the big time -- Brutal dictators with US support -- The roller coaster of coffee prices -- Change in the coffee landscape of northern Latin America -- Coffee today -- 7 Rubber -- Sources of rubber -- Beginnings of rubber use -- Industrialization of rubber -- Wild rubber exploitation -- Slavery in the Amazon -- Plantation rubber -- Big rubber companies enter the game -- Ford's big failure -- The coolie labor force -- German synthetic rubber -- Synthetic rubber in the United States -- The rubber industry of today -- 8 Plantation crops: Yesterday and today -- Ties that bind -- The saga continues -- Déjà vu -- Index.