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Concept and controversy : sixty years of taking ideas to market /

"A trusted advisor to Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson and one of America's leading professors of economic history, W.W. Rostow has helped shape the intellectual debate and governmental policies on major economic, political, and military issues since World War II. In this though...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rostow, W. W. (Walt Whitman), 1916-2003
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Chapter One: A Backward Glance: 1916-1938
  • Chapter Two: The Use of Air Power in Europe, 1942-1945: Should the Allies Have Won the War in Europe in 1944?
  • Chapter Three: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1945-1989: The Hinge Was Poland
  • Chapter Four: The Death of Stalin, 1953: The Timing May Have Been Off
  • Chapter Five: Open Skies, 1955: A Useful Failure
  • Chapter Six: Eisenhower and Kennedy on Foreign Aid, 1953-1963: The White Hats Triumph after a Fashion
  • Chapter Seven: The Republic of Korea: My Marginal Association with a Miracle.
  • Chapter Eight: The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Efforts to Control Inflation, 1957-1972: Innovations Should Be Institutionalized
  • Chapter Nine: China, 1949-: Waiting for a Democratic Revolution
  • Chapter Ten: Vietnam and Southeast Asia: Should the Ho Chi Minh Trail Have Been Cut?
  • Chapter Eleven: The Urban Problem, 1991-: Prevention Versus Damage Control
  • Chapter Twelve: Population, Modern Japan's Fourth Challenge: The Central Problem of the Twenty-first Century
  • Chapter Thirteen: The Long and Short Periods: A Possible Binding Thread.
  • Chapter Fourteen: Two Final Reflections: One about the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries, the Other about the Individual and History
  • Appendix A: Draft of Proposed U.S. Plan for a European Settlement: February 1946
  • Appendix B: The Question of East Germany Immediately after Stalin's Death
  • Appendix C: Text of W.W. Rostow's Seoul National University Speech
  • Appendix D: Andrews and Ortega Elementary Schools: Texas Academic Achievement Analysis, 1994-2001
  • Notes
  • 1. A Backward Glance
  • 2. The Use of Air Power in Europe, 1942-1945.
  • 3. The United States and the Soviet Union, 1945-1989
  • 4. The Death of Stalin, 1953
  • 5. Open Skies, 1955
  • 6. Eisenhower and Kennedy on Foreign Aid, 1953-1963
  • 7. The Republic of Korea
  • 8. The Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson Efforts to Control Inflation, 1957-1972
  • 9. China, 1949-
  • 10. Vietnam and Southeast Asia
  • 11. The Urban Problem, 1991-
  • 12. Population, Modern Japan's Fourth Challenge
  • 13. The Long and Short Periods
  • 14. Final Reflections
  • Index.