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The Great American Mission : Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order /
The Great American Mission traces how America's global modernization efforts during the twentieth century were a means to remake the world in its own image. David Ekbladh shows that the emerging concept of modernization combined existing development ideas from the Depression. He describes how a...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2011]
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| Edición: | Course Book |
| Colección: | America in the World ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. THE RISE OF AN AMERICAN STYLE OF DEVELOPMENT, 1914-1937
- 2. THE ONLY ROAD FOR MANKIND
- 3. A GOSPEL OF LIBERALISM
- 4. "THE PROVING GROUND"
- 5. "THE GREAT AMERICAN MISSION"
- 6. A TVA ON THE MEKONG
- 7. "EVERYTHING IS GOING WRONG"
- 8. NEW DEVELOPMENTS
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX