1 The Global Race for Bauxite, 1900–40

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Abbreviations x
6. Opening Pandora’s Bauxite 1
7. The Global Race for Bauxite, 1900–40 24
8. “Of the Highest Imperial Importance” 53
9. Nazi Germany’s Pursuit of Bauxite and Alumina 79
10. National Security Business? 107
11. The Soviet Union’s “Bauxite Problem” 138
12. “Greece Has Been Endowed by Nature with This Precious Material” 158
13. The Volta River Project and Decolonization, 1945–57 185
14. Canada and the Nationalization of Alcan’s Bauxite Operations in Guinea and Guyana 211
15. Transnational Restructuring and the Jamaican Bauxite Industry 238
16. Issues of Governance, Liberalization, Policy Space, and the Challenges of Development 268
17. White Metal 302
18. Battles over Bauxite in East India 328
19. Success without Bauxite 353
20. Contributors 373
21. Index 378