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I'm happy to announce a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews. This one discusses Jonathan Robin's Oil Palm: A Global History. The exchanges between our commentators and the author offer excellent insights into this fascinating history. As an open-access forum,H-Environment Roundtable Reviews are available to scholars and non-scholars alike, around the world, free of charge. Please enjoy and distribute!
https://networks.h-net.org/robins-oil-palm-global-history-h-environment-roundtable-vol-14-no-4-2024
Author: Jonathan Robins
“CREATING THE INTERN: PHILANTHROPY, UNIVERSITIES, AND THE NEW DEAL”
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April 24, 2024
Time 12 PM EST
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Proximity to power, access to professional networks, and acquisition of insider knowledge has come to define the “intangible things” unpaid internships claim to offer students—whether in the public service or in proliferating private internship programs. This paper locates the origins of the modern, private white-collar internship in the growth of the New Deal
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Dear Colleagues- Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Jonathan Robins's Oil Palm: A Global History. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Oil Palm: A Global History
Author: Jonathan Robins
Contributors: Erika Rappaport, Bronwen Everill, David Biggs
Editor: Mohamed Gamal-Eldin
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