Introduction: Opening Pandora's Bauxite: A Raw Materials Perspective on Globalization Processes in the Twentieth Century / Mats Ingulstad, Espen Storli, and Robin S. Gendron
1 The Global Race for Bauxite, 1900-40 / Espen Storli
2 "Of the Highest Imperial Importance": British Strategic Priorities and the Politics of Colonial Bauxite, ca. 1916-ca. 1958 / Andrew Perchard
3 Nazi Germany's Pursuit of Bauxite and Alumina / Hans Otto Froland
4 National Security Business? The United States and the Creation of the Jamaican Bauxite Industry / Mats Ingulstad
5 The Soviet Union's "Bauxite Problem" / Stephen Fortescue
6 "Greece Has Been Endowed by Nature with This Precious Material": The Economic History of Bauxite in the European Periphery, 1920s-70s / Leda Papastefanaki
7 The Volta River Project and Decolonization, 1945-57: The Rise and Fall of an Integrated Aluminum Project / Jon Olav Hove 8 Canada and the Nationalization of Alcan's Bauxite Operations in Guinea and Guyana / Robin S. Gendron
9 Transnational Restructuring and the Jamaican Bauxite Industry: The Swinging Pendulum of Bargaining Power / Lou Anne Barclay and Norman Girvan
10 Issues of Governance, Liberalization, Policy Space, and the Challenges of Development: Reflections from the Guinean Bauxite-Aluminum Sector / Bonnie Campbell
11 White Metal: Bauxite, Labour, and the Land under Alcan in Twentieth-Century Guyana, Jamaica, and Australia / Bradley Cross
12 Battles over Bauxite in East India: The Khondalite Mountains of Khondistan / Samarendra Das and Felix Padel
13 Success without Bauxite: Norsk Hydro's Long Wait to Achieve Backward Integration / Pal Thonstad Sandvik
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