The Empire Builders

Fascination with the history of the South American rubber boom never wanes. Its innate dramatic quality, the extraordinary touches of the bizarre which spice its narrative, and the ironic blend of climax and catastrophe which distinguish almost every aspect of its development have all proved sufficient guarantee against oblivion. Drawn by the curiosity of circumstances such as these, travellers have since penetrated the region to see for themselves the remains of former prosperity, and to marvel upon the strangely assorted flotsam of that great economic bonanza still left littered along the banks by the boom's swiftly retreating tide. A journey along the South American 'rubber rivers' is likely to tempt even the most phlegmatic observer to philosophize upon the vagaries of fortune in general-and upon Amazonia's experiences in particular

Ancient history · Art · Boom · Economic history · Empire · Literature · Mercantilism · Narrative · Political science · Prosperity · Cuban History and Society · Engineering · History · History and Politics in Latin America · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America

• Resource Theft in Tropical Forest Communities

  Open Access•A E Duchelle, Peter Cronkleton et al.•Conservation Ecology•2011

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• Redes y negocios en la cuenca amazónica, 1890-1914

  Open Access•Oscar M Granados•América Latina en la Historia…•2019

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• Estrategias indígenas ante la constitución de una sociedad de frontera en la Bolivia republicana. Los trinitarios y la construcción de un espacio de libertad en el Beni, 1880-1930

  Open Access•Anna Guiteras Mombiola•Revista Complutense de Historia…•2010

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• Arthur Posnansky, the Czar of Tiwanaku Archaeology

  Open Access•E J Marsh•Bulletin of the History of…•2019

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• Infernal Tambopata. British Involvement in Twentieth Century Slavery in Peru and Bolivia

  Open Access•Nicolas John Madge•Revista de Historia de América•2023

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• Institutions, Geography, and Market Power

  Felipe Tâmega Fernandes

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• Forum

  Open Access•Stefanie Gänger, Michael Bollig et al.•Environmental History•2019

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• Amazon Ports During the Roaring Twenties

  Open Access•Oscar M Granados•Illes i imperis•2022

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• “Tenía una mujer, pero nunca la vimos”. Una mirada femenina al auge de la goma elástica (Bolivia, XIX-XX)

  Open Access•Lorena Córdoba•ANUAC•2024

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• Etnografía en un fondo histórico. La mano de obra y las inquietudes de la Casa Suárez ante la crisis gomera, 1920-1940

  Open Access•Kathryn Lehman•Revista Complutense de Historia…•1970

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• Multidimensional forests

  Open Access•Marina Londres, M Schmink et al.•World Development•2023

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• La mano de obra indígena en el comercio fluvial del Beni (Bolivia) en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX

  Open Access•Anna Guiteras Mombiola•Bulletin de l’Institut français…•2011

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• Lt;i>Yo fuí vendida ”

  Open Access•Robert Wasserstrom•Advances in Anthropology•2017

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• The legally allowable versus the informally practicable in Bolivia's domestic timber market

  Open Access•W De Jong, Walter Cano et al.•Forest Policy and Economics•2014

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• Criminal entrepreneurs as pioneers, intermediaries, and arbitrageurs in borderland economies

  Open Access•Eric D U Gutierrez, Eric Dante Gutierrez•International Journal of Drug…•2021

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• Food and Debt among Rubber Tappers in the Bolivian Amazon

  Steven Romanoff•Human Organization•1992

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• The Peruvian Amazon Co

  Open Access•Margarita Serje•Enterprise & Society•2020

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• Amazonia by steam

  Open Access•D Villar•Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory•2022

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• Reinterpreting the Amazon Rubber Boom

  Open Access•Bradford L Barham, Oliver T Coomes•Latin American Research Review•1994

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• Latin American Business History since 1965

  Open Access•H V Nelles•The Business History Review•1985

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• The State and Sectional Interests

  Open Access•Laurence Whitehead•European Journal of Political…•1975

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• The Search for a Series of Small Successes

  Open Access•J Valerie Fifer•Journal of Latin American Studies•1982

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• Wild Rubber

  Open Access•Bradford L Barham, Bradford Barham et al.•Journal of Latin American Studies•1994

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• Surviving the Rubber Boom

  Robert Wasserstrom•Ethnohistory•2014

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• Barbarie en plural

  Open Access•Lorena Córdoba, Lorena I Córdoba•Journal de la Société des…•2015

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• Tonelli Justiniano Oscar, El caucho ignorado

  Open Access•Lorena Córdoba, Lorena I Córdoba•Journal de la Société des…•2011

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• Introducción. Mujeres indígenas y el trabajo asalariado en las tierras bajas sudamericanas, siglos XIX y XX

  Open Access•Lorena Córdoba, Z A Franceschi et al.•ANUAC•2024

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• Shajaó-Histories of an Invented Savage

  Daniela Peluso•History and Anthropology•2014

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• The New Face of Debt-Peonage in the Bolivian Amazon

  Open Access•Walter Cano Cardona, W De Jong et al.•Human Ecology•2014

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• Social Geomatics

  Open Access•Peter Cronkleton, Marco Antonio Albornoz et al.•Human Ecology•2010

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• The Rubber Workers of the Amazon

  A Lange•Bulletin of the American…•1911

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• Geographical Aspects of the New Madeira-Mamore Railroad

  Isaiah Bowman•Bulletin of the American…•1913

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• Recollections of an Ill-Fated Expedition to the Headwaters of the Madeira River in Brazil

  Neville B Craig•Bulletin of the American…•1908

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• The Sea and the Jungle

  H M Tomlinson•Bulletin of the American…•1913

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• Boundaries, Possessions, and Conflicts in South America

  Lawrence F Hill, Gordon Ireland•The Mississippi Valley Historical…•1938

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• The naturalist on the River Amazons

  Henry Walter Bates•The naturalist on the River Amazons•1910

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• The River Heath

  Edwin R Heath•Geographical Journal•1911

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• Bolivia's Boundary with Brazil

  J Valerie Fifer•Geographical Journal•1966

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• The Amazon

  Walter Hingston, Robin Furneaux et al.•Geographical Journal•1970

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• Rubber Production in the Amazon Valley

  Clarence F Jones, William Lytle Schurz et al.•Economic Geography•1926

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• Fordlandia and Belterra, Rubber Plantations on the Tapajos River, Brazil

  Joseph A Russell•Economic Geography•1942

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• The Acre Territory and the Caoutchouc Region of South-Western Amazonia

  George Earl Church•Geographical Journal•1904

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• The Distribution of Population in the Amazon Valley

  Open Access•William Lytle Schurz•Geographical Review•1925

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• Of Man and the Amazon

  Open Access•Edward Higbee, Edward C Higbee•Geographical Review•1951

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• Rubber, Rebels, and Rio Branco

  Lewis A Tambs•Hispanic American Historical Review•1966

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• The Boundary Controversy in the Upper Amazon Between Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru, 1903-1909

  Frederic William Ganzert•Hispanic American Historical Review•1934

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• Boundaries, Possessions, and Conflicts in South America

  J Fred Rippy, Gordon Ireland•Hispanic American Historical Review•1938

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• The Ryukyuans in Bolivia

  James Lawrence Tigner•Hispanic American Historical Review•1963

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• Rubber River

  John Melby, John P Melby et al.•Hispanic American Historical Review•1942

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