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Offers cutting-edge perspectives on how international development has shaped the global history of the modern world.
List of contents
1. Introduction Stephen J. Macekura and Erez Manela; Part I. Origins of Development as a Global Practice: 2. Wealth and nations: the origins of international development assistance Amanda Kay McVety; 3. The 'development' of humanitarian relief: US disaster assistance operations in the Caribbean Basin, 1917-1931 Julia F. Irwin; 4. Imperial and transnational developmentalisms: Middle Eastern interplays, 1880s-1960s Cyrus Schayegh; 5. Smallpox and the globalization of development Erez Manela; Part II. Development in a Decolonizing World: Between Local and Global: 6. New frontiers: World War II technologies and the opening of tropical environments to development Thomas Robertson; 7. A currency for Sudan: the Sudanese national economy and post-colonial development Alden Young; 8. Development, space, and counterinsurgency in South Vietnam's B¿n Tre Province, 1954-1960 Edward Miller; 9. Decolonization and the gendered politics of developmental labor in Southeastern Africa Priya Lal; Part III. International Development in Cold War Politics: 10. De-Stalinising growth: decolonization and the development of development economics in the Soviet Union Alessandro Iandolo; 11. Graveyard of development? Afghanistan's Cold War encounters with international development and humanitarianism Timothy Nunan; 12. Postwar European development aid: defined by decolonization, the Cold War, and European integration? Corinna R. Unger; Part IV. Development and International Society: 13. 'Mexico has the theories': Latin America and the interwar origins of development Christy Thornton; 14. Nasser, Hammarskjöld, and Middle East development in different scales of space and time Nathan J. Citino; 15. Creating 'the NGO international': the rise of advocacy for alternative development, 1974-1994 Paul Adler; 16. Epilogue: development dreams Jeremy Adelman.
About the author
Stephen J. Macekura is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of Of Limits and Growth: The Rise of Global Sustainable Development in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, 2015).Erez Manela is Professor of History at Harvard University, Massachusetts where he also serves as Director of Graduate Programs at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and co-chairs the Harvard International and Global History Seminar (HIGHS). He is the author of the prize-winning book The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism (2007) and co-editor of The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective (2010) and Empires at War, 1911–1923 (2014).
Summary
This anthology offers cutting-edge perspectives on how international development has shaped the history of the modern world. It focuses on the role of development practices and projects in the history of empire, Cold War competition, decolonization and postcolonial governance, transnational activist movements, and the global environment.
