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024 7 _a10.7560/785069
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781477300787
035 _a(DE-B1597)588663
035 _a(OCoLC)1286805901
040 _aDE-B1597
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072 7 _aHIS036060
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aEckes, Alfred E., Alfred E., Jr.
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe United States and the Global Struggle for Minerals /
_cAlfred E., Jr. Eckes, Alfred E.
264 1 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©1979
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction --
_tChapter One World War I and the Global Scramble for Resources --
_tChapter Two Dependent America and the Quest for Mineral Self-Sufficiency --
_tChapter Three Minerals and the Origins of World War II --
_tChapter Four Resources for Victory --
_tChapter Five "Have-Not" America and the Debate over Postwar Minerals Policy --
_tChapter Six Minerals and the Cold War --
_tChapter Seven The Paley Report: A Mid-Century Minerals Survey --
_tChapter Eight From Scarcity to Plenty- President Eisenhower and Cold War Minerals Policy, 1953-1963 --
_tChapter Nine The Scramble for Resources Renewed --
_tEpilogue --
_tAppendix I. Average Annual U.S. Producer Price (Cents per Pound) --
_tAppendix 2 Net U.S. Imports of Selected Metals and Minerals as a Percentage of Apparent Consumption --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn 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 to relative materials scarcity. Alfred E. Eckes’s comprehensive study shows that resource depletion and supply dislocations are not concerns unique to the 1970s. Since 1914, the quest for secure and stable supplies of industrial materials has been an important underlying theme of international relations and American diplomacy. Although the United States has been blessed with a diversified materials base, it has pursued a minerals strategy designed to exploit low-cost, high-quality ores abroad. Eckes demonstrates how this policy has led to official protection for overseas private investments, involving a role for the Central Intelligence Agency. Some modern historians have neglected the importance of resources in shaping diplomacy and history. This book, based on a vast variety of unutilized archival collections and recently declassified government documents, helps to correct that imbalance. In the process it illuminates an important and still timely aspect of America’s global interests.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022)
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7560/785069
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477300787
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