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Rubber is an extremely important part of modern living, from tires to clothes to building materials to adhesives. And though we don’t often think of it in the same league as oil or cotton, industrialization drove the demand for rubber drove into intense competition between world powers hell bent on imperial expansion. How did it happen? Watch the episode to find out.

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Written and Hosted By: Danielle Bainbridge
Graphics By: Noelle Smith
Directed By: Andrew Kornhaber
Produced By: Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)


Works Cited
History of Rubber:

rainforests.mongabay.com/10rubber.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/goodyear_hi.html

Christopher C. Goldthorpe Rubber Manufacturing in Malaysia (see Yale orbis)

Cambridge World History Volume 7, Part 1 & 2: Production, Destruction, and Connection 1750-Present edited by John McNeill and Kenneth Pomeranz (see Yale orbis)
Chapter 18 “Rubber” by Richard Tucker

continental-corporation.com/en/press/press-releases/faszination-kautschuk-94894

http://iccm-central.org/Proceedings/ICCM17proceedings/Themes/Nanocomposites/MULTIFUNC%20NANOCOMP/E3.13%20Zhang.pdf

stuffyoushouldknow.com/blogs/a-brief-history-of-rubber-or-how-gr-s-was-made.htm

youtube.com/watch?v=rHhD6YhsGk0

http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/who-built-the-first-automobile

acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/syntheticrubber/us-synthetic-rubber-program-historical-resourc.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/science/22obrubber.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/06/100628-science-ancient-maya-aztec-rubber-balls-beheaded

http://news.mit.edu/1999/rubber-0714

britannica.com/technology/vulcanization

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00222338108056785

britannica.com/place/Belgian-Congo

theguardian.com/world/2002/jul/18/congo.andrewosborn

jacobinmag.com/2017/01/patrice-lumumba-congo-belgium-colonialism-murder

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-22006446

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/1458736/Belgian-fury-at-film-on-Leopolds-Congo-terror.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3516965.stm

lrb.co.uk/blog/2014/03/31/glen-newey/worse-than-mussolini

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/35/181.html