The Hungry World : America's Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia / Nick Cullather.
2022
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Title
The Hungry World : America's Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia / Nick Cullather.
Author
Cullather, Nick, author.
ISBN
9780674058828
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2010
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (368 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674058828 doi
Alternate Call Number
QS 800
Summary
Cullather has written an engrossing 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. He explains how America used foreign aid, modernization theory, nutrition, statistics, and technology, to try to reconstruct the social and political order of the decolonized and disadvantaged countries in the region. Initially the issue of how best to intervene in Asia's rural countryside was contentious, with clashing visions of development and humanitarian aid being argued throughout the 50's and 60's. Ultimately, one strategy displaced all the others-the "Green Revolution" and the ability to feed millions through the miracle of genetically designed dwarf strains of grain and rice. Cullather provides a detailed explanation of how this policy of feeding Asian peasants became the single strategy of "progress" adopted by the US rather than industrialization or land reform. As current controversy swirls about how best to aid Africa in the crisis of nation-building, famine, and a poverty-stricken peasantry, the story of the U.S. interventions in Asia become starkly relevant.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
1 THE WORLD FOOD PROBLEM
2 MEXICO'S WAY OUT
3 A CONTINENT OF PEASANTS
4 WE SHALL RELEASE THE WATERS
5 A VERY BIG, VERY POOR COUNTRY
6 A PARABLE OF SEEDS
7 YOU CAN'T EAT STEEL
8 THE MEANING OF FAMINE
9 THE CONQUEST OF HUNGER
10 PRESENT AT THE RE-CREATION
ABBREVIATIONS
NOTES
ARCHIVES
INDEX
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
1 THE WORLD FOOD PROBLEM
2 MEXICO'S WAY OUT
3 A CONTINENT OF PEASANTS
4 WE SHALL RELEASE THE WATERS
5 A VERY BIG, VERY POOR COUNTRY
6 A PARABLE OF SEEDS
7 YOU CAN'T EAT STEEL
8 THE MEANING OF FAMINE
9 THE CONQUEST OF HUNGER
10 PRESENT AT THE RE-CREATION
ABBREVIATIONS
NOTES
ARCHIVES
INDEX