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The United States and the Global Struggle for Minerals /
In 1973-1974 soaring commodity prices and an oil embargo alerted Americans to the twin dangers of resource exhaustion and dependence on unreliable foreign materials suppliers. This period seemed to mark a watershed in history as the United States shifted from the era of relative resource abundance t...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2021]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One World War I and the Global Scramble for Resources
- Chapter Two Dependent America and the Quest for Mineral Self-Sufficiency
- Chapter Three Minerals and the Origins of World War II
- Chapter Four Resources for Victory
- Chapter Five "Have-Not" America and the Debate over Postwar Minerals Policy
- Chapter Six Minerals and the Cold War
- Chapter Seven The Paley Report: A Mid-Century Minerals Survey
- Chapter Eight From Scarcity to Plenty- President Eisenhower and Cold War Minerals Policy, 1953-1963
- Chapter Nine The Scramble for Resources Renewed
- Epilogue
- Appendix I. Average Annual U.S. Producer Price (Cents per Pound)
- Appendix 2 Net U.S. Imports of Selected Metals and Minerals as a Percentage of Apparent Consumption
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index