Global Gambits: Big Steel and the U.S. Quest for Manganese

by Tyler Priest

Book Overview

From the 1890s to the 1960s, U.S. steel makers imported more than 70 million tons of high-grade manganese ore, a ferroalloy indispensable to steel production but rare in the United States. Using a commodity approach to highlight the webs of interest and conflict over raw materials that studies of bilateral diplomacy often overlook, Priest reveals the interconnected histories of far-flung mining regions around the globe and the unexamined role of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275977072
• ISBN13: 9780275977078
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"