Abstract

PRETEL, David. Chains Reactions: Global Technological Change and the Forest Frontier in the Yucatán Peninsula (c. 1850-1950). Hist. mex. [online]. 2020, vol.70, n.1, pp.259-311.  Epub Aug 28, 2020. ISSN 2448-6531.  https://doi.org/10.24201/hm.v70i1.4080.

This article addresses the impact of technological change in the evolution of the frontiers of logwood and chicle production in the Yucatán Peninsula from the mid-19th century to World War II. It has three main goals: first, to emphasize the role that different scales of technology had on the rise and fall of global supply chains for tropical forest products during the so-called Second Industrial Revolution; second, to argue that the exploitation cycles for logwood and chicle were determined by the articulation of global and local chemical, botanical and mechanical technologies; third, to demonstrate that global supply chains for these resources were spaces of technoscientific synchrony, connecting dissimilar technological cultures.

Keywords : Logwood; Chicle; Technology; Supply Chain; Chemical Substitutes.

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