Red Rubber, Bleeding Trees: Violence, Slavery, and Empire in Northwest Amazonia, 1850-1933 - Softcover
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This vivid ethnohistory explores the complex transformation of northwestern Amazonia by the rubber boom from 1850 to 1933. During this period, the region underwent rapid and violent incorporation into the political and economic systems of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Western Europe, and the United States. The author examines the historical myths and realities of northwest Amazonia before its incorpo-ration and then shows how the Indians and environment were radically altered by the rubber boom and international trade. Not merely victims, the Indians both aided and resisted economic and environmental change in subtle and contradictory ways. In 1907 allegations of the systematic enslavement, torture, and murder of Indians by the rubber industry ignited an international scandal linking antislavery power Great Britain to human bondage and focused world attention on Amazonia until the outbreak of World War I.
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Michael Stanfield is an associate professor of history at the University of San Francisco.
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"Stanfield has written a fascinating, disturbing, and thoughtful account that highlights the social, cultural, and diplomatic sides of economics. . . . it is full of revelations and, written in clear prose with a compelling story line . . ."
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