Firestone Rubber Company and Its Influence in Liberia: a Historical Perspective
Author: Augustine G. K. Polumaine
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 99
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Author: Augustine G. K. Polumaine
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 99
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gregg Mitman
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2021-11-02
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1620973782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn 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.
Author: Tarnue Johnson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2010-11
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1452089450
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about a case study of Firestone Natural Rubber Company in Liberia. In this book issues of bureaucratic corruption, ethics and social alienation are directly confronted from a case study approach. Positivist and post-positivist approaches in the framework of a mixed methodology are adopted. This approach is justified in an attempt to generate comprehensive understanding of the research problem and its likely solutions.
Author: Firestone Plantations Company
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Saul Levitt
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Published: 1961-10
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780822200420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE STORY: As told by Chapman from the NY Daily News: Wirz, a Swiss immigrant and a doctor, had enlisted in the rebel army, had been severely wounded and, a semi-invalid, had been put in command of this military prison. It was merely a stockade wi
Author: James Ciment
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 2014-08-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780809026951
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first popular history of the former American slaves who founded, ruled, and lost Africa's first republic In 1820, a group of about eighty African Americans reversed the course of history and sailed back to Africa, to a place they would name after liberty itself. They went under the banner of the American Colonization Society, a white philanthropic organization with a dual agenda: to rid America of its blacks, and to convert Africans to Christianity. The settlers staked out a beachhead; their numbers grew as more boats arrived; and after breaking free from their white overseers, they founded Liberia—Africa's first black republic—in 1847. James Ciment's Another America is the first full account of this dramatic experiment. With empathy and a sharp eye for human foibles, Ciment reveals that the Americo-Liberians struggled to live up to their high ideals. They wrote a stirring Declaration of Independence but re-created the social order of antebellum Dixie, with themselves as the master caste. Building plantations, holding elegant soirees, and exploiting and even helping enslave the native Liberians, the persecuted became the persecutors—until a lowly native sergeant murdered their president in 1980, ending 133 years of Americo rule. The rich cast of characters in Another America rivals that of any novel. We encounter Marcus Garvey, who coaxed his followers toward Liberia in the 1920s, and the rubber king Harvey Firestone, who built his empire on the backs of native Liberians. Among the Americoes themselves, we meet the brilliant intellectual Edward Blyden, one of the first black nationalists; the Baltimore-born explorer Benjamin Anderson, seeking a legendary city of gold in the Liberian hinterland; and President William Tubman, a descendant of Georgia slaves, whose economic policies brought Cadillacs to the streets of Monrovia, the Liberian capital. And then there are the natives, men like Joseph Samson, who was adopted by a prominent Americo family and later presided over the execution of his foster father during the 1980 coup. In making Liberia, the Americoes transplanted the virtues and vices of their country of birth. The inspiring and troubled history they created is, to a remarkable degree, the mirror image of our own.
Author: Wayne Chatfield Taylor
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christine Cheng
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0199673349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines how the economic survival strategies of former fighters in Liberia can help explain the trajectories of war-to-peace transitions.
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers the activities of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Liberia.
Author: Firestone Plantations Company
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Published: 1955
Total Pages: 44
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