附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-300) and index.
Enduring the technology take-off. Machines and plantations : birth of the black belt -- Industry on the Isthmus : the Panama Canal Zone -- Curing the Caribbean : Haiti through the occupation -- Out of the shadows : Liberia before World War II -- Encountering the science superpower. Malaria and modernization : the decline of the black belt -- Alliances and utopias : Liberia's search for development -- Technology of reaction : Haiti and the new dispersal -- Conclusion: Science and Hope.
