Hungry World - Americas Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia

Tells the history of how the United States government, along with private philanthropies like the Ford and Rockefeller foundations, aimed to win the hearts and bodies of rural Asia in the post World War II decades by crafting strategies to develop and modernize agriculture and the peasant's way of life.

About the author

Nick Cullather is Professor of History and International Studies at Indiana University.

Summary

Tells the history of how the United States government, along with private philanthropies like the Ford and Rockefeller foundations, aimed to win the hearts and bodies of rural Asia in the post World War II decades by crafting strategies to develop and modernize agriculture and the peasant's way of life.

Product details

• Authors: Nick Cullather, Cullather Nick
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.09.2013
• EAN: 9780674725812
• ISBN: 978-0-674-72581-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Asia, HISTORY / Asia / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Asian History, History of the Americas, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)