Global gambits : big steel and the U.S. quest for manganese / Tyler Priest

Author: Priest, Tyler
Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.
Physical Description: xxvii, 332 pages : maps ; 25 cm.

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International history

Contents

The "starch in the steel": manganese metallurgy and commerce -- Far-flung sources: the creation of a world market, 1880-1914 -- "More than a pawn in the game of war": global instabilities, 1905-19 4 -- Filling big orders: the diversification of supply, 1919-30 -- Internationalism vs. self-sufficiency: the making of U.S. mineral policy, 1919-39 -- Tempting the Brazilians: the diplomacy of minerals and steel, 1930-45 -- Extending the quest: the crisis of the new order, 1945-49 -- New frontiers: restructuring world supply, 1948-65.

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Manganese industry—Political aspects—United States—History
Steel industry and trade—United States—History
Strategic materials—United States
Strategic materials—Developing countries
Raw materials—Developing countries
Manganese—Metallurgy
Steel—Metallurgy
Developing countries—Foreign economic relations—United States
United States—Foreign economic relations—Developing countries

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0275977072 (alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-318) and index.

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