| Sumario: | 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.
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