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by Joe Jackson


  Daimler, Gottfried

  Darwin, Annie

  Darwin, Charles

  Darwin, Emma

  Davis, Edgar Byrum

  Dean, Warren

  debt-peonage system

  Defoe, Daniel

  deforestation

  defumador

  Della Costa, Antonio

  Dempsey, Mary

  D’Entrecasteaux Group

  Dermatobia hominis

  de Sousa Pessoa, Biamor

  Detroit, Mich., auto industry of

  de Vilanova, Francisco

  devil’s fishhook ( juruparipindi)

  Diamantino Rubber Co.

  Dickens, Charles

  dimethyl butadiene

  Dipteryx odorata (sarrapia tree)

  Dobson, William Charles Thomas

  Donner Party

  Dothidella ulei

  Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

  Drummond-Hay, Edward

  Drummond-Hay, James de Vismes

  Drummond-Hay, John

  Duke of Devonshire

  Dunlop tires

  Dusendchon, Zargas & Co.

  dyewoods

  Earth Summit (1992)

  East India Company

  Ecuador:

  cinchona seeds stolen from

  rubber from

  Edison, Thomas A.

  eels, electric

  El Dorado, mythology of

  electrical systems

  Electrophorous electricus (temblador)

  Eli Lilly

  Elizabeth I, Queen of England

  Emigrant’s Guide to Brazil, The (Hastings)

  Emigrant’s Guide to Oregon and California, The (Hastings)

  engenhos

  Enlightenment

  Ensor, Robert C. K.

  Ercarnación, Sor

  Erebus, HMS

  Escondido River

  Esperanza

  estrada

  exploration

  faca

  Falkland Islands

  farinha de mandioca (manioc flour)

  Farris, Charles

  Federated Malay States see also Malaya

  feiticeira

  fer-de-lance ( jararaca)

  Ferrell, Mercia Jane

  Ficus elastica

  fire ants ( formigas de fogo)

  Firestone, Harvey

  Flint, Charles R.

  flowers, cult status of

  Forbes, Henry O.

  Ford, Henry

  Amazonian agro-industrial utopia planned by

  automobile production of

  distant paternalism of

  manufacturing innovations of

  Fordlandia

  failure of

  location of

  North-American management of

  rubber plantation at

  ruins of

  size of

  worker dissatisfactions at

  Ford Motor Company

  formigas de fogo (fire ants)

  Fortune, Robert

  Fourcroy, Antoine François de

  Franco, Old Man

  Franco-Prussian War

  free trade

  Freud, Sigmund

  Funtumia elastica

  gaiola

  Gardiner, John

  Gardrich. L.

  gas masks

  Gates, Bill

  Gauguin, Paul

  gaurapo

  G. B. Pirelli and Co.

  Geer, William C.

  General Sherman (giant sequoia tree)

  George II Frederic, King of Miskito Nation

  George IV, King of Great Britain

  George Frederic Augustus I, King of Miskito Nation

  German colonies

  Germany, synthetic rubber production in

  Geronimo

  gibberellic acid

  Gibbon, Lardner

  Gil, Rojas

  Gmelina arborea

  Goacribari

  gold, mythical city of, see El Dorado, mythology of

  goldenrod

  gold mining

  Goldsworthy, Sir Roger Tuckfield -48n

  goma

  Gonçalves Ribeiro, Eduardo

  Goodyear, Charles

  Gordon, Charles George

  Granville, Granville George Leveson-Gower, Lord

  Great Britain:

  antipodal points of

  biopiracy efforts of, see biopiracy

  Brazilian economic influence of

  colonial plantation economy of

  consulships of

  corporate interests served by

  East-Asian rubber plantations of

  imperial mission of

  international resentment toward

  labor problems of

  rubber monopoly gained by

  Victorian-era exploration from

  Great Exhibition (1851)

  Green, Thomas Shipton

  Greenwood, James

  Greytown, Nicaragua

  Guaharibos

  Guarani

  Guatemala, British Honduran tensions with

  guayule

  Gum-Elastic (Goodyear)

  gutta-percha

  Guyana, rubber plantations wiped out in

  Half-Moon Cay

  Hammick (Wickham’s tobacco-farm partner)

  Hampstead Heath

  Hancock, Thomas

  Hardenburg, Walter E.

  Harding, Warren

  Harris, John H.

  Hasskarl, Justus Charles

  Hastings, Lansford Warren

  Haverstock Hill

  hawksbill turtles

  HCN (hydrocyanic acid) (prussic acid)

  heat exhaustion

  Heneratgoda Gardens

  Heracleitus

  Herbert River

  Hernandez (white Creole)

  Hernández, Crisóstavo

  Herndon, William Lewis

  Hevea brasiliensis (Pará rubber tree)

  Hevea brasiliensis (cont.)

  biopiracy of -43n

  Cross’s delivery of

  curing process for

  East Asian cultivation of

  fungal parasites of

  germination process of

  identification process for

  Kew cultivation of

  mother tree of

  natural growth patterns of

  optimal conditions for

  Pará fine derived from

  seed explosions of

  superiority of rubber from

  tapping processes for

  tree size of

  types of

  Wickham’s drawings of

  see also Brazilian rubber trade

  Hill, Captain

  Himalayas, British trekkers in

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hogg, Sir James

  Hondo River

  Hooker, Francis Harriet

  Hooker, Joseph Dalton

  background of

  in bureaucratic conflicts

  hevea seeds delivered to

  as Kew’s director

  prickly personality of

  in rubber biopiracy efforts

  Wickham distasteful to

  Hooker, William Jackson

  hookworm

  Hoover, Herbert

  hornets

  Huitoto Indians

  Humboldt, Alexander von

  hydrocyanic (prussic) acid (HCN)

  ice ages

  Iferenanuique (Huitoto chief)

  Ignatius of Loyola, Saint

  iguanas

  imbibation

  Immigration Act (1872)

  Incas

  India:

  cinchona cultivation in

  rubber cultivation in

  Sepoy Mutiny in

  Indian black earth (terra de Indio)

  India Office:

  in cinchona biopiracy effort

  East Asian rubber cultivation and

  Kew collaboration with

  management style of -41n

  rubber biopiracy
and

  India rubber

  Ingham, W. B.

  Inman Lines

  insecticides

  internal combustion engine

  ipe (ironwood tree)

  Iquitos, Peru

  Irai Company

  Iraq, U.S. invasion of

  Ireland, potato famine in

  ironclad ships

  Isonandra tree

  Itamarina

  jaguars

  James I, King of Great Britain

  Jameson (Wickham’s business colleague)

  James Stafford

  Japan, Asian rubber plantations seized by

  jararaca (fer-de-lance)

  Javari River

  Jennings, Clements

  Jesuits

  João VI, King of Portugal

  Johnson, Frederick A.

  Jones, Fordyce

  juruparipindi (devil’s fishhook)

  Kanakas (Melanesian workers)

  Kanchenjunga

  Kickxia

  Kidd, Benjamin

  King, Moll

  Kingdom & Co.

  Kipling, Rudyard

  Kirkwood, Deborah

  Kondakov, Ivan

  Krakatoa, volcanic eruption of

  Labroz, O.

  la Condamine, Charles Marie de

  lactifers

  Laird, MacGregor

  Lake LaFarge

  Lake Ormoc

  lanchas

  Landolphia (white rubber vine) (mbungu vine)

  Lane, Edward Valentine

  Lange, Algot

  LaRue, Carl

  latex

  see also rubber

  Latin America:

  Confederate refugees in, see confederados

  informal British presence in

  Lawrence, T. E.

  leaf blight

  leaf-cutter ants

  Lectures on Colonization and Colonies (Merivale)

  Ledger, Charles

  Lendrum, Alexander

  Lendrum, Frances Livingstone

  Leopold II, King of Belgium

  leprosy

  Level, Andreas

  lianas

  Liberia, rubber cultivation in

  lighting systems, electric

  linamarin

  Lingoa Geral

  Liverpool & Amazon Royal Mail Steamship Company

  Livingstone, David

  Livingstone, Thomas Gott

  lizards

  llanos

  Loadman, John

  logging

  London, England:

  disease epidemics in

  growth of

  Marylebone district of

  poverty in

  suburbs of

  London, Jack

  London Stock Exchange

  Louisiade Archipelago, Conflict Islands in

  Lovejoy, Thomas

  Ludwig, Daniel K.

  Lumholtz, Carl

  Lynch, R. Irwin -40n

  MacCreagh, Gordon

  Maceranduba (cow-tree)

  Macgregor, Sir William

  Macintosh, Charles

  Madagascar, rosy periwinkle of

  Madeira-Mamoré Railway Company

  Madeira River

  mahogany (Swietenia mahogani)

  Mai d’agua

  maki

  malaria

  Malaya:

  rubber plantations in

  Wickham’s plantation projects in

  Mallet, Louis

  Maloney, Sir C. Alfred

  Managua, Treaty of (1860)

  Manaus, Brazil

  decline of

  floating dock built in

  prosperity of

  as rubber trade center -58n

  Manifest Destiny

  Manihot glaziovii (Ceará rubber plants)

  Manilkara bidentata

  manioc flour (farinha de mandioca)

  Mann, Gustav

  Manuel (Venezuelan worker)

  mapiri

  marginal environments

  Maria I, Queen of Portugal

  Markham, Clements R.

  career of-41n

  in cinchona theft

  physical appearance of

  rubber biopiracy backed by

  Wickham’s India appointment urged by

  marriage, Victorian view of

  Marx, Karl

  mass production

  matapalo (strangler fig)

  Mateo (Venezuelan worker)

  Maurey, Matthew Fontaine

  Maya

  Mayhew, Henry

  mbungu vine (Landolphia) (white rubber vine)

  Melanesian workers (Kanakas)

  Melo Palheta, Francisco de

  Mendenhall, J. B.

  Merivale, Herman

  Merrie England

  Merrimac

  mestizos

  Mexico:

  1914 revolution in

  rubber from

  War of Independence of

  Yucatán Peninsula of

  Michelin tires

  Miller, William

  millinery business

  mimosa frigosa

  mishla

  Miskito Indians

  missionaries

  Jesuit

  Miyata, Kenneth

  Model Ts

  Monitor

  monkeys

  Montanha

  Monte Alegre

  Monte Durado, Brazil

  Montefiore, Abraham

  Montezuma II, Emperor of Mexico

  Moog, Vianna

  Morani, Emilio

  Moravians

  Morley, George

  Morocco:

  Brazilian immigrants from

  British diplomacy with

  Mosquito Coast

  mosquitoes

  diseases transmitted by

  mosses

  mother-of-pearl

  Mother Saidy (Barbados woman in Venezuela)

  Mother Tree, mythology of

  Mount Chimborazo

  Mundurucú Indians

  Munt, J. G.

  Murphy, John

  Murray, George

  Napoleon I, Emperor of the French

  Narciso (Venezuelan worker)

  natural theology

  Nelson, Lord Horatio

  New Guinea, see Papua New Guinea

  Nicaragua

  British presence in

  cholera epidemic in

  Mosquito Coast of

  rubber harvesting in

  Santo Domingo country in

  tribal peoples of

  Nicuesa, Diego de

  nitrate pulse

  Niven, Robert

  oil industry

  Oldman, King of the Miskito Nation

  Olds, Ransom E.

  “On India-Rubber” (Collins)

  On the Origin of Species (Darwin)

  On the Plantation, Cultivation, and Curing of Pará Indian Rubber

  (Wickham)

  opium

  Orellana, Francisco de

  Orinoco River

  Amazon system linked to

  rubber collection near

  upriver journey on

  Otto, Nikolaus

  Owen, Richard

  Pacific Ocean:

  clipper ship crossing of

  guano islands of

  palmatore

  Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Lord

  palm oil

  palm trees

  Panama rubber tree (Castilla elastica)

  Panasea

  P&O Company

  Papua New Guinea

  archipelagoes near

  Papua New Guinea (cont.)

  British annexation of

  colonial expatriate society in

  land use restrictions of

  native culture of

  rubber cultivation in

  topography of

  Pará (Belém), Brazil (city)

  British consuls in

  Jewish merchants in

  location of

  Wi
ckham’s hevea seeds smuggled through

  Pará, Brazil (province)

  Pará fine

  Paranáquausú

  see also Amazon River

  Pará (Brazil) nuts

  Paraponera clavata

  Pará rubber tree, see Hevea brasiliensis

  parrots

  patrãos

  Pavlova, Anna

  Pax Britannica

  Paxton, Joseph

  Peal, Samuel

  pearl oysters, cultivation of

  Peck, John Benjamin

  Pedley, Anna

  Pedley, James

  Pedro I, Dom, Emperor of Brazil

  Pedro II, Dom, Emperor of Brazil

  Pereira Branco, Olinda

  Perideniya Gardens

  periwinkle, biopiracy of

  perros de agua (river otters)

  Peru:

  cinchona seeds stolen from

  rubber production in

  Peru Pará Rubber Company

  Peruvian Amazon Rubber Company

  Philippines, rubber plantations in

  Pilditch, Alice Molson Symon

  Pilditch, Frank Slater

  Pilditch, Harriette Jane Wickham

  Pinto, Abraham

  Pinto Guimarães, Miguel Antônio

  piquiá trees

  Piquiá-tuba, Brazil

  piranha

  Pirelli tires

  pitpan canoes

  Pizarro, Francisco

  Pizarro, Gonzalo

  “Planter of Malata, The” (Conrad)

  Planters’ Association of Ceylon and Malaya

  plant species, geographical transfer of

  see also biopiracy

  plenopid snails

  plimsolls

  pneumatic rubber tires

  Porter, Bernard

  Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

  posseiros

  Potamotrygon stingray

  praça

  Prado, Paulo

  Prain, David

  Prayer of the Dry Toad

  Price, Henry M.

  Price Grant

  Priestley, Joseph

  Pritchett, G. J.

  prussic (hydrocyanic) acid (HCN)

  purple ipe

  Putumayo region, rubber barons of

  Queensland, Australia

  British emigration to

  climate of

  Melanesian labor force in

  racial violence in

  quinine

  railroads

  in Brazil

  rubber usage on

  rain forest, see tropical forests

  Raleigh, Sir Walter

  Ramón (Wickham’s canoe pilot)

  ranchos

  rede

  Reja, Carmen

  Reliance Rubber Company

  Reserva Florestal Adolfo Duche

  resource independence

  Rhome, Romulus J.

  rias

  Ridley, Henry N.

  Riker, David Afton (son)

  Riker, David Bowman (father)

  background of

  estate built by

  financial success of

  Ford plantation and

  on Wickham

  Riker, Ditmar

  Riker, R. H.

  Riker, Robert

  Riker, Rubim

  Rio Negro

  Rios, Rafael

  river blindness

 

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