Author: Herbert Wright
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Category : Rubber
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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My Tour in Eastern Rubber Lands
Author: Herbert Wright
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Category : Rubber
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Category : Rubber
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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British Colonial Office Reports on the Rubber Situation ...
Author: Everett Guy Holt
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Category : Rubber industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Category : Rubber industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Empire of Rubber
Author: Gregg Mitman
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620973782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
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An ambitious and shocking exposé of America’s hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world’s automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world’s rubber. But only one percent of the world’s rubber grew under the U.S. flag, creating a bottleneck that hampered the nation’s explosive economic expansion. To solve its conundrum, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company turned to a tiny West African nation, Liberia, founded in 1847 as a free Black republic. Empire of Rubber tells a sweeping story of capitalism, racial exploitation, and environmental devastation, as Firestone transformed Liberia into America’s rubber empire. Historian and filmmaker Gregg Mitman scoured remote archives to unearth a history of promises unfulfilled for the vast numbers of Liberians who toiled on rubber plantations built on taken land. Mitman reveals a history of racial segregation and medical experimentation that reflected Jim Crow America—on African soil. As Firestone reaped fortunes, wealth and power concentrated in the hands of a few elites, fostering widespread inequalities that fed unrest, rebellions and, eventually, civil war. A riveting narrative of ecology and disease, of commerce and science, and of racial politics and political maneuvering, Empire of Rubber uncovers the hidden story of a corporate empire whose tentacles reach into the present.
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620973782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
An ambitious and shocking exposé of America’s hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world’s automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world’s rubber. But only one percent of the world’s rubber grew under the U.S. flag, creating a bottleneck that hampered the nation’s explosive economic expansion. To solve its conundrum, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company turned to a tiny West African nation, Liberia, founded in 1847 as a free Black republic. Empire of Rubber tells a sweeping story of capitalism, racial exploitation, and environmental devastation, as Firestone transformed Liberia into America’s rubber empire. Historian and filmmaker Gregg Mitman scoured remote archives to unearth a history of promises unfulfilled for the vast numbers of Liberians who toiled on rubber plantations built on taken land. Mitman reveals a history of racial segregation and medical experimentation that reflected Jim Crow America—on African soil. As Firestone reaped fortunes, wealth and power concentrated in the hands of a few elites, fostering widespread inequalities that fed unrest, rebellions and, eventually, civil war. A riveting narrative of ecology and disease, of commerce and science, and of racial politics and political maneuvering, Empire of Rubber uncovers the hidden story of a corporate empire whose tentacles reach into the present.
Trade Information Bulletin
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Languages : en
Pages : 1082
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Languages : en
Pages : 1082
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Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1332
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The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1332
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The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949: Eastern Europe; the Soviet Union
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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Rubber Journal
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Category : Asbestos
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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Category : Asbestos
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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Information Quarterly
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Inter-ocean
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Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Languages : en
Pages : 600
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The Automobile Trade Directory
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Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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