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  • Empire of Rubber

    Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia

    by Gregg Mitman ...
    An ambitious and shocking exposé of America's hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadowIn 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Future Remains

    A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene

    Edited by Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero, Robert S. Emmett ...
    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 look to fossil remains to infer past conditions of life on earth, so might past and present-day objects offer clues to intertwined human and natural histories that shape our planetary futures. In this era of aggressive hydrocarbon extraction, extreme ... Read more

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  • Empire of Rubber

    Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia

    by Gregg Mitman ...
    An ambitious and shocking exposé of America’s hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadowIn 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 ... Read more

    Was $20.99 USD Now $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Documenting the World

    Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record

    Edited by Gregg Mitman, Kelley Wilder ...
    Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film. Its history would be absent of images that define historical moments and generations: the death camps of Auschwitz, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Apollo lunar landing. It would be a history, in other words, of just artists' renderings and the spoken and written word. To inhabitants of the twenty-first century, deeply immersed ... Read more

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  • The Planning Moment

    Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

    by Sarah Blacker, Emily Brownell, Anindita Nag, Martina Schlünder, Sarah Van Beurden, Dagmar Schäfer1, Itty Abraham2, Benjamin Allen3, Lino Camprubi4, John DiMoia5, Mona Fawaz6, Lilly Irani7, Chihyung Jeon8, Robert Kett9, Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach0, Karen McAllister1, Laura Mitchell2, Gregg Mitman3, Aaron Moore4, Nada Moumtaz5, Tahani Nadim6, Raul Necochea López7, Tamar Novick8, Juno Salazar Parreñas9, Benjamin Peters0, Ana Carolina Vimiero1, Alexandra Widmer2, Alden Young3 ...
    Empires and their aftermaths were massive planning institutions; in the past two hundred years, the natural and social sciences emerged—at least in part—as modes of knowledge production for imperial planning. Yet these connections are frequently under-emphasized in the history of science and its corollary fields.The Planning Moment explores the myriad ways plans and planning practices pervade ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Breathing Space

    How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes

    by Prof. Gregg Mitman ...
    Allergy is the sixth leading cause of chronic illness in the United States. More than fifty million Americans suffer from allergies, and they spend an estimated $18 billion coping with them. Yet despite advances in biomedicine and enormous investment in research over the past fifty years, the burden of allergic disease continues to grow. Why have we failed to reverse this trend?Breathing Space ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Thinking with Animals

    New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism

    Edited by Lorraine Daston, Gregg Mitman ...
    Is anthropomorphism a scientific sin? Scientists and animal researchers routinely warn against "animal stories," and contrast rigorous explanations and observation to facile and even fanciful projections about animals. Yet many of us, scientists and researchers included, continue to see animals as humans and humans as animals. As this innovative new collection demonstrates, humans use animals to ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Reel Nature

    America's Romance with Wildlife on Film

    by Gregg Mitman ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics
    Winner of the History of Science Society's Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize in the History of Science.From the early exploits of Teddy Roosevelt in Africa to blockbuster films such as March of the Penguins, Gregg Mitman's Reel Nature reveals how changing values, scientific developments, and new technologies have come to shape American encounters with wildlife on and off the big screen. ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    Empire of Rubber

    Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia

    by Gregg Mitman ...
    Narrated by Amir Abdullah ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 47 min

    In the early 1920s, Americans owned eighty percent of the world's automobiles and consumed seventy-five percent of the world's rubber. But only one percent of the world's rubber grew under the US 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 ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBooks

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  • Land of Promise

    An Economic History of the United States

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    Michael Lind's Land of Promise is "[an] ambitious economic history of the United States . . . rich with details" ( New York Times Book Review).How did a weak collection of former British colonies become an industrial, financial, and military colossus?From the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the American economy has been transformed by wave after wave of emerging technology: the steam ... Read more

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  • Calvin Coolidge

    The American Presidents Series: The 30th President, 1923-1929

    by David Greenberg ...
    Series series The American Presidents
    The austere president who presided over the Roaring Twenties and whose conservatism masked an innovative approach to national leadership.He was known as "Silent Cal." Buttoned up and tight-lipped, Calvin Coolidge seemed out of place as the leader of a nation plunging headlong into the modern era. His six years in office were a time of flappers, speakeasies, and a stock market boom, but his focus ... Read more

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  • American Tax Resisters

    by Romain D. Huret ...
    “The American taxpayer”—angered by government waste and satisfied only with spending cuts—has preoccupied elected officials and political commentators since the Reagan Revolution. But resistance to progressive taxation has older, deeper roots. American Tax Resisters presents the full history of the American anti-tax movement that has defended the pursuit of limited taxes on wealth and battled ... Read more

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