The Development Century
A Global History

Offers cutting-edge perspectives on how international development has shaped the global history of the modern world.

Stephen J. Macekura (Edited by), Erez Manela (Edited by)

9781316515884, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 6 September 2018

366 pages, 7 b/w illus.
23.6 x 15.8 x 2.5 cm, 0.64 kg

This anthology offers a cutting-edge perspective on how development has shaped the history of the modern world. Stephen J. Macekura and Erez Manela have gathered together leading historians to examine development on the international, regional, and national levels, as well as local manifestations of development initiatives and transnational organizing on behalf of alternative approaches. Themes include the relationship between empire and development, the role of international institutions, the influence of the Cold War, decolonization and post-colonial development strategies, reform and resistance to development, development and global health, and the ecological effects of development. The Development Century examines how ideas and discourses about development have shaped its practices on the ground; explores the ways in which policymakers and experts attempted to implement development through specific institutions and policies; and analyzes development initiatives and their effect of local environments and people.

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.

Subject Areas: Human rights [JPVH], General & world history [HBG]