Monthly Review Press The devilas milk: a social history of rubber, paperback/john tully

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Capital, as Marx once wrote, comes into the world dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt.

He might well have been describing the long, grim history of rubber.

From the early stages of primitive accumulation to the heights of the industrial revolution and beyond, rubber is one of a handful of commodities that has played a crucial role in shaping the modern world, and yet, as John Tully shows in this remarkable book, laboring people around the globe have every rea.