00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000009911 20200508205016 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| 978-90-04-35728-0 010-0520009911 eng 382 382/GOD/S Helen Godfrey Submarine Telegraphy and the Hunt for Gutta Percha : Challenge and Opportunity in a Global Trade Leiden Brill 2018 <a href="https://brill.com/view/title/33688">e-book</a> In Submarine Telegraphy and the Hunt for Gutta Percha, Helen Godfrey traces the connections between submarine telegraphy and the peoples of Singapore and Sarawak (Borneo) who supplied gutta percha, the latex insulating the world network of undersea telegraph cables. The book examines the complex inter-relationships linking metropolitan and local environments in a trade once described as a matter of interest to the whole civilized world. Using previously untapped corporate and official archives, trade data and a rich documentary record, the study explores the roles of cable producers, scientists, administrators, and local Chinese and indigenous traders. It reveals how a global trade may transcend technological, geographic and cross-cultural challenges, even hostilities. Motivations and outcomes are more complex than simple commercial gain. Economics & Political Science Social Sciences Global History