La reina del Orthon

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dc.alternateIdentifier9788869697876
dc.alternateIdentifier10.30687/978-88-6969-787-6
dc.contributorCórdoba, Lorena
dc.date2026-07-15T10:55:52Z
dc.date2026-07-15T10:55:52Z
dc.date2026-07-15T10:55:34Z
dc.date2024
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-25T14:34:44Z
dc.descriptionFrom 1880 to 1920, the rubber industry opened up the Amazon basin – and particularly the Bolivian jungle – to international trade; therefore, for the first time, the inhospitable and hitherto marginal lands of regions such as Beni, Acre and Pando gained both a strategic position on the republican chessboard and a more direct link to the global market. The productive boom prompted a systematic policy of exploration of the jungle territory, the opening of new communication routes and the consolidation of national borders. But, above all, the extractive vertigo also translated into a notorious demographic expansion: the Amazon jungle thus began to receive increasing waves of immigrants from other parts of Bolivia, as well as a growing mass of international workers dazzled by the almost instant fortune promised by the ‘gold’ that flowed from the rubber trees. However, documentary sources often present us with the canonical image of a hyper-masculinised jungle landscape and rubber industry: indeed, we know little or nothing of the Creole, European or Indigenous women involved in one way or another in the extractive endeavour. Women are usually represented as minor social actors: transparent, anonymous, almost invisible, forgotten, relegated or in any case mentioned laterally, obliquely or indirectly by historical sources. This rule, however, is challenged by some notable exceptions. One of these is undoubtedly the testimony of the British Elisabeth ‘Lizzie’ Hessel, whose letters to her family in Europe provide the only first-person account that allows us to piece together the female experience in a Bolivian rubber plantation. Her observations, therefore, constitute an exceptional period document of the lights and shadows of the extractive boom.
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dc.identifierhttps://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-787-6/
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dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/26818
dc.identifierdoi10.30687/978-88-6969-787-6
dc.imprintEdizioni Ca’ Foscari – Venice University Press
dc.languageita
dc.licenseConditionhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.placepublicationVenice, Italy
dc.publisherEdizioni Ca’ Foscari – Venice University Press
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dc.relationisPublishedByEdizioni Ca’ Foscari – Venice University Press
dc.relationisbn9788869697876
dc.resourceTypebook
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dc.seriesnumber21
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dc.subjectAmazonia
dc.subjectExtractivism
dc.subjectRubber boom
dc.subjectTravellers
dc.subjectWomen
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1K The Americas::1KL Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America::1KLS South America::1KLSL Bolivia
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPB Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
dc.titleLa reina del Orthon

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