U.S. technology and medicine in America's African world /
First Statement of Responsibility
David McBride
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New Brunswick, N.J. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Rutgers University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2002
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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viii, 308 p., [8] p. of plates :
Other Physical Details
ill., maps ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-300) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Enduring the technology take-off. Machines and plantations : birth of the black belt -- Industry on the Isthmus : the Panama Canal Zone -- Curing the Caribbean : Haiti through the occupation -- Out of the shadows : Liberia before World War II -- Encountering the science superpower. Malaria and modernization : the decline of the black belt -- Alliances and utopias : Liberia's search for development -- Technology of reaction : Haiti and the new dispersal -- Conclusion: Science and Hope