Ekbladh The Great American Mission

Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3374-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 6, 408 Seiten

Reihe: America in the World

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Ekbladh, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

List of Abbreviations xv

INTRODUCTION 1

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 275

Bibliography 337

Index 373

Über Autor(innen)

David Ekbladh is assistant professor of history at Tufts University.