Author: Michitake Aso
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781469637143
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Civilizing latex -- Cultivating science -- Managing disease -- Turning tropical -- Maintaining modernity -- Decolonizing plantations -- Militarizing rubber
Rubber and the Making of Vietnam
Author: Michitake Aso
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781469637143
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Civilizing latex -- Cultivating science -- Managing disease -- Turning tropical -- Maintaining modernity -- Decolonizing plantations -- Militarizing rubber
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781469637143
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Civilizing latex -- Cultivating science -- Managing disease -- Turning tropical -- Maintaining modernity -- Decolonizing plantations -- Militarizing rubber
Estate Rubber
Author: Otto Vries
Publisher:
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Category : Latex
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latex
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Plantation Rubber and the Testing of Rubber
Author: George Stafford Whitby
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Category : Rubber
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Rubber
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Circular of the Bureau of Standards
Author:
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Category : Weights and measures
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Weights and measures
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Circular
Author: United States. National Bureau of Standards
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Category : Standardization
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Standardization
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Imperial Institute (Great Britain)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
United States Government Specification for Portland Cement
Author: United States. Bureau of Standards
Publisher:
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Category : Electric cables
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric cables
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The Plantation Rubber Industry in the Middle East [sic]
Author: David Milton Figart
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Category : Rubber industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rubber industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Electrical Journal
Author:
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Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1474
Book Description
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Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1474
Book Description
Empire of Rubber
Author: Gregg Mitman
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.
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.