The Firestone operations in Liberia
Author: Wayne Chatfield Taylor
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 150
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Author: Wayne Chatfield Taylor
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 150
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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: Niels Hahn
Publisher:
Published: 2020-03-31
Total Pages: 380
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book reviews the history of the United States-Liberia relations from the early 1820s to 2015, with particular attention paid to the role of the US armed forces. Contrary to most literature on the genesis and development of Liberia, this book demonstrates how US military power has been the primary influence shaping Liberia's history. This includes the role played by the US military in the founding of Liberia, the protection of the country during the European formal colonial era, multiple covert operations in securing US-friendly administrations in Liberia, and direct military interventions when necessary to secure American interests in the region.
Author: Augustine G. K. Polumaine
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 99
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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.
Author: 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: Jyotirmoy Pal Chaudhuri
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2018-04-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783319704753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the history of the relationship between Liberia and Britain—the world’s first black republic, founded by former slaves, and the world’s strongest colonial power. Jyotirmoy Pal Chaudhuri excavates a wealth of archival sources to reconstruct a turbulent narrative spanning key points in twentieth-century Liberian history. Pal Chaudhuri argues that the Black Republic was never a serious item on the British agenda for constructive action in West Africa, as seen in the repeated failure of their concessionaires, their interference with the Firestone rubber project, and their efforts to have Liberia expelled from the League of Nations. Untangling the conflicts and contradictions between Britain’s colonial interests and humanitarian ideals, Whitehall and the Black Republic is a long overdue contribution to the history of Liberia and the British Empire.
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Published: 1925*
Total Pages: 1
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Caree A. Banton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-05-09
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1108429637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a thorough examination of Afro-Barbadian migration to Liberia during the mid- to late nineteenth century.