Unbounded Profits: Rubber, Private Enterprise, and the Colonial State in Assam, 1810-1873

von Brescius, Moritz (1 March 2023). Unbounded Profits: Rubber, Private Enterprise, and the Colonial State in Assam, 1810-1873 (Unpublished). In: Global History Seminar (WIGH).

The mute testimony of slaughtered rubber trees scattered around mirrored the failure of a struggling imperial administration to strike a balance between revenue generation in the present and forest preservation for the future.

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Speech)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History > Institute of History, Modern and Contemporary History
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History > Institute of History, Modern and Contemporary General and Swiss History
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History > Economic, Social and Environmental History

UniBE Contributor:

von Brescius, Moritz Hans

Subjects:

900 History
900 History > 910 Geography & travel
900 History > 940 History of Europe
900 History > 950 History of Asia

Language:

English

Submitter:

Moritz Hans von Brescius

Date Deposited:

03 Apr 2023 14:23

Last Modified:

03 Apr 2023 14:23

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/181182

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