print email comment close The International Natural Rubber Market, 1870-1930 URL: http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/frank.international.rubber.market Description: Essay about natural rubber extraction and commercialization during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Initially "the best source of latex, the milky fluid from which natural rubber products were made, was hevea brasiliensis, which grew predominantly in the Brazilian Amazon (but also in the Amazonian regions of Bolivia and Peru)." Later, Southeast Asian plantations developed a low-cost alternative to South American production methods. Includes graphs. By two history professors. Author: Frank, Zepyr; Musacchio, Aldo Publisher: EH.Net Extra Keywords Seringalistas Malaysia Library of Congress Subject Headings: Rubber -- History Rubber industry and trade LII Database Information: Record 20357 created by Maria Brandt on 01/12/2006 Last modification on 09/11/2007 Last review by Charlotte Bagby on 01/10/2008 Charlotte Bagby on 09/14/2006 Published: 01/19/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/20357