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Tag Archives: rubber
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Amitav Ghosh – The Glass Palace. Nineteenth and twentieth century reimagining of Burmese and Indian history, with long descriptions of the harvest and trade of teak, oil, rubber, and so on, which are both beautifully written and pretty terrifying. Juan … Continue reading →
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Tagged amitav ghosh, barcelona, burma, coto vedado, india, juan goytisolo, linguistic imperialism, oil, robert phillipson, rubber, TEFL, the glass palace, timber
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