Missions for science : U.S. technology and medicine in America's African world / / David McBride
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| Autore: |
McBride David <1949->
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| Titolo: |
Missions for science : U.S. technology and medicine in America's African world / / David McBride
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| Pubblicazione: | New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2002 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (327 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 338.96/06 |
| Soggetto topico: | Technology transfer - Southern States |
| Technology transfer - North America | |
| Technology transfer - Liberia | |
| Medical innovations - Southern States | |
| Medical innovations - North America | |
| Medical innovations - Liberia | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-300) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Missions for science |
| ISBN: | 0-8135-3545-X |
| 1-4175-0240-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809883603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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