Missions for Science : US Technology and Medicine in America's African World.
Title:
Missions for Science : US Technology and Medicine in America's African World.
Author:
McBride, David.
ISBN:
9780813535456
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (327 pages)
Contents:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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