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 Industry10 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
Summary
" ... Explores the often overlooked history of bauxite in the twentieth century, and in doing so examines the social, political, and economic forces that shaped the time."--Back cover
