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Corporate Colonialism in Liberia - Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia By Gregg Mitman. New York: The New Press, 2021. Pp. 336. $27.99, hardcover (ISBN: 781620973776).

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Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia By Gregg Mitman. New York: The New Press, 2021. Pp. 336. $27.99, hardcover (ISBN: 781620973776).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2022

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Keywords

LiberiaWest Africabusiness (American in Africa)political ecologyland tenuredevelopmentaccommodation to colonialism
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The Journal of African History , Volume 63 , Issue 2 , July 2022 , pp. 281 - 283
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