The development century a global history

"This anthology offers a cutting-edge perspective on how development has shaped the history of the modern world. Stephen Macekura and Erez Manela have gathered together leading historians to examine development on the international, regional, and national levels as well as local manifestations...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Macekura, Stephen J., editor, prologuista (editor), Manela, Erez, editor, prologuista
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press 2018.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Global and international history.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39779142*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Stephen J. Macekura and Erez Manela
  • Part I Origins of development as a global practice
  • Wealth and nations : the origins of international development assistance / Amanda Kay McVety
  • The development' of humanitarian relief : US disaster assistance operations in the Caribbean Basin, 1917-1931 / Julia F. Irwin
  • Imperial and transnational developmentalisms : Middle Eastern interplays, 1880s-1960s / Cyrus Schayegh
  • Smallpox and the globalization of development / Erez Manela
  • Part II Development in a decolonizing world: Between local and global
  • New frontiers : World War II technologies and the opening of tropical environments to development / Thomas Robertson
  • A currency for Sudan : the Sudanese national economy and postcolonial development / Alden Young
  • Development, space, and counterinsurgency in South Vietnam's Bến Tre province, 1954-1960 / Edward Miller
  • Decolonization and the gendered politics of developmental labor in southeastern Africa / Priya Lal
  • Part III International development in Cold War politics
  • De-Stalinizing growth : decolonization and the development of development economics in the Soviet Union / Alessandro Iandolo
  • Graveyard of development? Afghanistan's Cold War encounters with international development and humanitarianism / Timothy Nunan
  • Postwar European development aid : defined by decolonization, the Cold War, and European integration? / Corinna R. Unger
  • Part IV Development and international society
  • Mexico has the theories : Latin America and the interwar origins of development / Christy Thornton
  • Nasser, Hammarskjöld, and Middle East development in different scales of space and time / Nathan J. Citino
  • Creating the NGO International : the rise of advocacy for alternative development, 1974-1994 / Paul Adler
  • Epilogue : Development dreams / Jeremy Adelman.