Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Opening Pandora's Bauxite -- 1 The Global Race for Bauxite, 1900-40 -- 2 "Of the Highest Imperial Importance" -- 3 Nazi Germany's Pursuit of Bauxite and Alumina -- 4 National Security Business? -- 5 The Soviet Union's "Bauxite Problem" -- 6 "Greece Has Been Endowed by Nature with This Precious Material" -- 7 The Volta River Project and Decolonization, 1945-57 -- 8 Canada and the Nationalization of Alcan's Bauxite Operations in Guinea and Guyana -- 9 Transnational Restructuring and the Jamaican Bauxite Industry -- 10 Issues of Governance, Liberalization, Policy Space, and the Challenges of Development -- 11 White Metal -- 12 Battles over Bauxite in East India -- 13 Success without Bauxite -- Contributors -- Index.