Capital Prospects: Jamaica and the Environmental History of Postwar Decolonization
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the 1940s and 1950s, North American corporations made colonial Jamaica the world’s largest producer of bauxite, the raw material required to smelt aluminum. This industrial transformation was part of a transimperial project, as British and American diplomats worked with industrialists to reconstruct the world capitalist economy after the Second World War. Although much has been written about the history of bauxite in Jamaica, scholars have paid little attention to the conflicts between peasants and prospectors that underpinned the industry’s rise and expansion. As this article argues, corporate prospecting drove a transformation in property that enabled firms to invest in mining and, as a result, dispossess tens of thousands of Jamaicans of their land. But the expansion of capitalism at the end of empire did not just mark the Jamaican countryside. The history of environmental and social change was decided there, through conflicts between peasants and prospectors over land and property.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it