Book ID: CBB827064585

Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897–1975 (2018)

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Aso, Michitake (Author)


The University of North Carolina Press


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 426
Language: English

Dating back to the nineteenth-century transplantation of a latex-producing tree from the Amazon to Southeast Asia, rubber production has wrought monumental changes worldwide. During a turbulent Vietnamese past, rubber transcended capitalism and socialism, colonization and decolonization, becoming a key commodity around which life and history have revolved. In this pathbreaking study, Michitake Aso narrates how rubber plantations came to dominate the material and symbolic landscape of Vietnam and its neighbors, structuring the region's environment of conflict and violence. Tracing the stories of agronomists, medical doctors, laborers, and leaders of independence movements, Aso demonstrates how postcolonial socialist visions of agriculture and medicine were informed by their colonial and capitalist predecessors in important ways. As rubber cultivation funded infrastructural improvements and the creation of a skilled labor force, private and state-run plantations became landscapes of oppression, resistance, and modernity.Synthesizing archival material in English, French, and Vietnamese, Aso uses rubber plantations as a lens to examine the entanglements of nature, culture, and politics and demonstrates how the demand for rubber has impacted nearly a century of war and, at best, uneasy peace in Vietnam.

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Review Hieu Phung (April 2019) Review of "Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897–1975". Environmental History (pp. 385-387). unapi

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Review William G. Clarence-Smith (2019) Review of "Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897–1975". Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (pp. 367-368). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Seitz, John Britton
John Wallace
Lydia E. Carol-Ann Burke
Kerkhoff, Kathinka Sinha
Besky, Sarah
Casey, Matthew
Concepts
Agriculture
Colonialism
Plantations
Labor and laborers
Agronomy
Science and society
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
Ancient
21st century
Places
India
Vietnam
Atlantic world
Caribbean
Africa
São Tomé and Príncipe
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