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The great American mission : modernization and the construction of an American world order / David Ekbladh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ekbladh, David, 1972-
- Series:
- America in the world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development--United States--History.
- Economic development.
- Economic assistance, American--History.
- Economic assistance, American.
- Industrial policy--United States--History.
- Industrial policy.
- History.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign economic relations.
- International economic relations.
- United States--Foreign relations.
- International relations.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 386 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Rise of an American Style of Development, 1914-1937 14
- Chapter 2 The Only Road for Mankind: "Modernisation" to Meet the Challenge of Totalitarianism, 1933-1944 40
- Chapter 3 A Gospel of Liberalism: Point Four and Modernization as National Policy, 1943-1952 77
- Chapter 4 "The Proving Ground": Modernization and U.S. Policy in Northeast Asia, 1945-1960 114
- Chapter 5 "The Great American Mission": Modernization and the United States in the World, 1952-1960 153
- Chapter 6 A TVA on the Mekong: Modernization at War in Southeast Asia, 1960-1973 190
- Chapter 7 "Everything Is Going Wrong": The Crisis of Development and the End of the Postwar Consensus 226
- Chapter 8 New Developments: From the Cold War to the "War on Terror" 257.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691133300
- 0691133301
- OCLC:
- 318672292
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