African miracle, African mirage : transnational politics and the paradox of modernization in Ivory Coast /
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Ivory Coast was touted as an African miracle, a poster child for modernization and the ways that Western aid and multinational corporations would develop the continent.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, Ohio :
Ohio University Press,
[2016]
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Colección: | New African histories series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Selected Abbreviations; Introduction; Part 1 The Postwar Years; 1-Becoming an Attractive Colony; 2-Triangulating Colonial Modernization; Part 2 The Decade of Development; 3-(Re)Framing Postcolonial Development; 4- Energizing the Economic Miracle; 5- Tapping the Riches of a ""Backward"" Region; Part 3 The Fate of Modernization; 6- Investing in Modernization's Last Frontier; 7- Crushing Dreams of Modernity; Conclusion: A Return to the Saga of an African Miracle; Notes; Bibliography; Index.