Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia, Hardcover - Gregg Mitman

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What can a pesticide pump, a jar full of sand, or an old calico print tell us about the Anthropocene--the age of humans? Just as paleontologists lo...

Describe a pervasive way of conducting private and public affairs in which state and local office holders throughout Hawaii took their personal fin...

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In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balan...

Contributor(s): Author: Mostafa MinawiThe Ottoman Scramble for Africa is the first book to tell the story of the Ottoman Empire's expansionist effo...

The Adventurers for Irish land transformed England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, laying the foundations of the Br...

The Adventurers for Irish land transformed England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, laying the foundations of the Br...

Reducere. Haymarket Books proudly brings back into print Winona LaDuke's seminal work of Native resistance to oppression.This thoughtful, in-depth account of...

A World History of Rubber helps readers understand and gain new insights into the social and cultural contexts of global production and consumption...

Is it ever appropriate to diagnose and treat oral and dental problems without knowing the full extent of the problem? With more than 50% of anatomi...

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During the Second Empire, from 1854 until 1870, the state had power over the Opera in ways that were without precedent. The Opera effectively becam...

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Born near a dusty cement plant in the northeast Missouri village of Ilasco, close to Mark Twain Cave, Hannibal native Gregg Andrews draws on the vo...

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Reducere. Hong Kong and Southeast Asia are home to five hundred million people, yet their economies are dominated by only fifty families whose interests rang...

Although Byzantium is known to history as the Eastern Roman Empire, scholars have long claimed that this Greek Christian theocracy bore little rese...

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Reducere. Provides an ambitious history of pigs and pig products from the Columbian exchange to the present, emphasizing critical stories of production, cons...

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Record contracts have been the goal of aspiring musicians, but are they still important in the era of SoundCloud? Musicians in the United States st...

The nineteenth century is too often invoked as moment where Britain alone exerted global dominance, without the need for European collaboration. Th...

Reducere. Word scramble puzzles brings hours of entertainment and also does more of the following;Improve the brain's cognitive ability, mental acuity and pa...

In Botswana's struggle to access international economies, few resources are as fundamental and fraught as control over land. Land, Power, and the G...

In the 1880s Europeans grabbed vast swaths of the African continent, using documents, not guns, as their weapon of choice. Steven Press follows a p...

During the first four decades of the twentieth century, the British Indian Army possessed an illusion of racial and religious inclusivity. The army...

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Nearly every day brings news of another merger or acquisition involving the companies that control our food supply. Just how concentrated has this ...

The first substantial study of multilingual film in France. Unpacking the power dynamics at play in the dialogue of eight emblematic films, this bo...

Reducere. In the pre-Code Hollywood era, between 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands...