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9781558493704

Staging Growth

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    9781558493704

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    1558493700

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-03-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Summary

Beginning in the 1950s, the theory of modernization emerged as the dominant paradigm of economic, social, and political development 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 c

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Foreword xi
Akira Iriye
Introduction: Modernization, International History, and the Cold War World 1(24)
Michael E. Latham
Part I: Developing Modernization
Modernization Theory and the American Revival of the Scientific and Technological Standards of Social Achievement and Human Worth
25(22)
Michael Adas
Modernization Theory, the Highest Stage of American Intellectual History
47(34)
Nils Gilman
Walt Rostow's Stages of Economic Growth: Ideas and Action
81(26)
Mark H. Haefele
Part II: Celebrating Modernization
Selling Capitalism: Modernization and U.S. Overseas Propaganda, 1945--1959
107(22)
Laura Belmonte
Musicals and Modernization: Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I
129(36)
Christina Klein
Part III: Contesting Modernization around the World
Estado Novo, Homem Novo (New State, New Man): Colonial and Anticolonial Development Ideologies in Mozambique, 1930--1977
165(34)
Michael Mahoney
West Meets East: The Center for International Studies and Indian Economic Development
199(26)
David C. Engerman
Modernization and Democratic Values: The ``Japanese Model'' in the 1960s
225(26)
Victor Koschmann
Koreanizing Modernization: Modernization Theory and South Korean Intellectuals
251(24)
Gregg Andrew Brazinsky
Notes on Contributors 275(2)
Index 277

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