Съдържание:
  • 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.