Format:
1 online resource (327 pages)
ISBN:
9780813535456
Content:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: Enduring the Technology Take-Off -- Chapter 1: Machines and Plantations: Birth of the Black Belt -- Chapter 2: Industry on the Isthmus: The Panama Canal Zone -- Chapter 3: Curing the Caribbean: Haiti Through the Occupation -- Chapter 4: Out of the Shadows: Liberia Before World War II -- PART II: Encountering the Science Superpower -- Chapter 5: Malaria and Modernization: The Decline of the Black Belt -- Chapter 6: Alliances and Utopias: Liberia's Search for Development -- Chapter 7: Technology of Reaction: Haiti and the New Dispersal -- Conclusion: Science and Hope -- Notes -- Selected References -- Index -- About the Author.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813530673
Additional Edition:
Print version Missions for science
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe McBride, David Missions for science New Brunswick, NJ [u.a.] : Rutgers University Press, 2002 ISBN 0813530679
Language:
English
Subjects:
Engineering
Keywords:
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Liberia
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Innovation
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Nordamerika
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Innovation
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