Video Description

As everybody knows, the Amazon is under threat. But this isn’t the first time that the Amazon has been transformed in service of the global economy, because in the middle of the 19th century, the world’s largest rain forest was the center of one of the most ferocious commodity crazes in history. This video tells the story of the Rubber Boom. https://buymeacoffee.com/lostincontext Sources (for the Amazon series) - John Hemming, Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon, 2008 - Chris Feliciano Arnold, The Third Bank of the River, 2018 - Charles C. Mann, 1491: The Americas Before Columbus, 2005 - Charles C. Mann, 1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World, 2011 - McNeill, J. R, Mosquito Empires; Ecology and War in the Greater Carribbean, 2010 - Grandin, Greg- Fordlandia, 2009 00:00 Intro 00:53 Colonisation of the Amazon 04:38 Cabanagem 07:10 Alter do Chao and Santarem 11:10 The Rubber Boom 20:49 Acre and Rubber 22:18 The End of the Rubber Boom