Author: John R. Hokanson
Publisher:
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Category : Liberia
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A Market for U.S. Products in Liberia
Author: John R. Hokanson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liberia
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liberia
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A Market for U. S. Products: Liberia
Author: United States. Bureau of International Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A Market for U.S. Products
Author: United States. Bureau of International Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
A Market for U.S. Product
Author: United States. Bureau of International Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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.
Doing Business 2020
Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464814414
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Seventeen in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2020 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464814414
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Seventeen in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2020 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity.
International Commerce
Extralegal Groups in Post-conflict Liberia
Author: Christine Cheng
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199673349
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This book examines how the economic survival strategies of former fighters in Liberia can help explain the trajectories of war-to-peace transitions.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199673349
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This book examines how the economic survival strategies of former fighters in Liberia can help explain the trajectories of war-to-peace transitions.
Foreign Commerce Weekly
Establishing a Business in Liberia
Author: Nancy V. Rawls
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description