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Staging Growth - Modernization, Development and the Global Cold War (Paperback)
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Staging Growth - Modernization, Development and the Global Cold War (Paperback)
Series: Culture, Politics & the Cold War
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A timely reassessment of modernization theory and its international
impact; Beginning in the 1950s, the theory of modernization emerged
as the dominant paradigm of economic, social, and political
develoment within the American foreign policy establishment.
Purporting to explain the stages through which all nations pass on
the road to industrial modernity, it provided a rationale for a
broad range of cultural and political projects aimed at fostering
Third World growth while simultaneously combating communism. But
modernization theory was more than simply an expression of Cold War
ideology. As the essays in this volume show, the ideal of
modernization proliferated throughout the postcolonial world and
across ideological lines in places as diverse as East Asia,
Southern Africa, and South Asia. Indeed, it was embraced by all who
shared the American enthusiasm for the increased production and
higher standards of living promised by industrialization - enemies
and allies alike. Situating modernization theory historically,
Staging Growth avoids conventional chronologies and categories of
analysis, particularly the traditional focus on conflicts between
major powers. The contributors employ a variety of approaches -
from economic and intellectual history to cultural criticism and
biography - to shed fresh light on the global forces that shaped
the Cold War and its legacies. Most of the pieces are comparative,
exploring how different countries and cultures have grappled with
the implications of modern development. At the same time, all of
the essays address similar fundamental questions. Is modernization
the same thing as Westernization? Is the idea of modernization
universally valid? Do countries follow similar trajectories as they
undertake development? Does modernization bring about
globalization? In addition to the editors and Akira Iriye,
contributors include Michael Adas, Laura Belmonte, Gregg Andrew
Brazinsky, Christina Klein, J. Victor Koschmann, and Michael R.
Mahoney.
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