Author: Sir Clements Robert MarkhamPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Report on the Geographical Department of the India Office, 1867 to 1877
Author: Sir Clements Robert MarkhamPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
The India Office, 1858-1869
Author: Donovan WilliamsPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
India Office Library and Records Report
Author: India Office LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber
Author: Warren DeanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526920
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Brazil once enjoyed a near monopoly in rubber when the commodity was gathered in the wild. By 1913, however, cultivated rubber in South-east Asia swept the Brazilian gathered product from the market. In this innovative study, Warren Dean demonstrates that environmental factors have played a key role in the many failed attempts to produce a significant rubber crop again in Brazil. In the Amazon attempts to shift to cultivated rubber failed repeatedly. Brazilian social and economic conditions have been blamed for these failures, in particular the failure of local capitalists and the refusal of the working class to accept wage labour. Dean shows in this study, however, that the difficulty was mainly ecological: the rubber tree in the wild lives in close association with a parasitic leaf fungus; when the tree was planted in close stands, the blight appeared in epidemic proportions.
Supplement to thr Alphabetical Catalogue of the Liobrary of the Royal Geographical Society
Author: John MurraySecond Supplement to the Alphabetical Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society
Author: The Encyclopædia Britannica
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Report for the Year Ended ...
Author: India Office Library and RecordsPublisher:
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Category : East Indies
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth
Author: R.C. BridgesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131716296X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
A special volume of essays to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Society, with a full listing and index of Hakluyt Society publications 1847-1995. Containing: P.E.H. Hair, ’The Hakluyt Society: from Past to Future’; R.C. Bridges, ’William Desborough Cooley and the Foundation of the Hakluyt Society’; Tony Campbell, ’R.H. Major and the British Museum’; R.J. Bingle, ’Henry Yule: India and Cathay’; Ann Savours, ’Clements Markham: longest serving Officer, most prolific Editor’; C.F. Beckingham, ’William Foster and the Records of the India Office’; D.B. Quinn, ’R.A. Skelton of the Map Room’; Michael Strachan, ’Esmond S. de Beer: Scholar and Benefactor’; and R.C. Bridges and P.E.H. Hair, ’The Hakluyt Society and World History’.
The Thief at the End of the World
Author: Joe JacksonPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101202696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The amazing tale of one of history's most daring acts of biopiracy-and how it changed history In this thrilling real-life account of bravery, greed, obsession, and ultimate betrayal, award- winning writer Joe Jackson brings to life the story of fortune hunter Henry Wickham and his collaboration with the empire that fueled, then abandoned him. In 1876, Wickham smuggled 70,000 rubber tree seeds out of the rainforests of Brazil and delivered them to Victorian England's most prestigious scientists at Kew Gardens. The story of how Wickham got his hands on those seeds-and the history-making consequences-is the stuff of legend. The Thief at the End of the World is an exciting true story of reckless courage and ambition that perfectly captures the essential nature of Great Britain's colonial adventure in South America.