Download or read book The Trees of Liberia written by Günther Kunkel and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Woods of Liberia written by Jeannette Miriam Kryn and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travel Sketches from Liberia written by Henk Dop and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 917 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1880s a Swiss-born biologist, Johann Büttikofer, while working for the Royal Museum of Natural History in Leiden, The Netherlands, carried out two extended expeditions to Liberia, West Africa. In 1890 he published the results of his work in German in two-volumes, entitled Reisebilder aus Liberia (Travel Sketches from Liberia). Büttikofer worked extensively in the forested regions of coastal Liberia and made the acquaintance of many prominent Liberians and other personalities of that era. His zoological work there is actually exceeded by his detailed descriptions of the state of Liberia some 50 years following its colonization by freed American slaves and their descendents. It constitutes the first comprehensive monograph on the Republic of Liberia.
Download or read book Liberian High Forest Trees written by Alexander George Voorhoeve and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empire of Rubber written by Gregg Mitman and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Guide to Standard Floras of the World written by David G. Frodin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-14 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2001 book provides a selective annotated bibliography of the principal floras and related works of inventory for vascular plants. The second edition was completely updated and expanded to take into account the substantial literature of the late twentieth century, and features a more fully developed review of the history of floristic documentation. The works covered are principally specialist publications such as floras, checklists, distribution atlases, systematic iconographies and enumerations or catalogues, although a relatively few more popularly oriented books are also included. The Guide is organised in ten geographical divisions, with these successively divided into regions and units, each of which is prefaced with a historical review of floristic studies. In addition to the bibliography, the book includes general chapters on botanical bibliography, the history of floras, and general principles and current trends, plus an appendix on bibliographic searching, a lexicon of serial abbreviations, and author and geographical indexes.
Download or read book Liberia written by Patricia Levy and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The country of Liberia boasts a rich history and a vibrant culture. Founded as a home for former slaves and free blacks from the United States and the Caribbean, Liberia is unique among its African neighbors as the political, economic, and social structures of the country are derived from both American and African traditions. Detailed photographs and insightful sidebars accompany the text and allow the reader to learn about the challenges facing Liberia today, as well as the customs, cuisine, and artistic contributions of the Liberian people.
Download or read book Reports from the Consuls of the United States on the Commerce Manufactures Etc of Their Consular Districts written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Liberia as I Found It in 1858 written by Alexander M. Cowan and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Liberia Flora of Liberia Appendix IV List of the known plants of Liberia written by Harry Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forest Resources of Liberia written by Karl Rodney Mayer and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Liberia written by Mary H. Moran and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moran argues that democracy is not a foreign import into Africa, but that essential aspects of what we in the West consider democratic values are part of the indigenous traditions of legitimacy and political process.
Download or read book Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketches of Liberia written by James Washington Lugenbeel and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Liberia written by Paul Rozario and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberia was a colony for freed and freeborn African Americans for twenty-five years before becoming the first republic on the African continent in 1847. Today, Liberia is recovering from over twenty years of violence, which include seven years of civil war (1989-1996). From depleted iron ore mines to enviable diamond reserves, from indiscriminate logging to the world's largest rubber plantation, from the shrieking pepper bird to the docile pygmy hippopotamus, this book is a spirited investigation of the sharp contrasts that define the Liberian land and its people. Book jacket.
Download or read book Liberia written by Harry Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Liberia Today written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
