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• PART ONE: THE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (LATE 1940s TO EARLY 1970s) Instituting the Development Project The Development Project in Global Context PART TWO: THE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT UNRAVELS The Global Economy Reborn International Finance and the Rise of Global Managerialism PART THREE: THE GLOBALIZATION PROJECT (1980s - ) Instituting the Globalization Project The Globalization Project Structural Instabilities PART FOUR: RETHINKING DEVELOPMENT The Globalization Project and Its Counter-Movements Whither Development?
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The Second Edition of this popular textbook has been conceptually reworked to take account of the instabilities underlying the project of global development. While the conceptual framework of viewing development as shifting from a national, to a global, project remains, new issues such as the active engagement in the development project by Third World elites and peoples are considered. The first four chapters cover the rise and fall of the 'development project' around the world. The next three cover the period of globalization, from the mid 1980s onwards. The final two chapters rethink globalization and development for the 21st century. Throughout extensive use is made of case studies. Clear in presentation, designed to integrate the sociology of development in the mainstream of social theory, this state-of-the-art introduction to the sociology of development has profound implications for the future of the field.
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• Preface to the Fifth Edition About the Author A Timeline of Development Acknowledgments Abbreviations
• 1. Development: Theory and Reality Part I. The Development Project (Late 1940s to Early 1970s)
• 2. Instituting the Development Project
• 3. The Development Project: International Framework
• 4. Globalizing Developments Part II. The Globalization Project (1980s to 2000s)
• 5. Instituting the Globalization Project
• 6. The Globalization Project in Practice
• 7. Global Countermovements Part III. Millennial Reckonings (2000s-Present)
• 8. The Globalization Project in Crisis
• 9. The Sustainability Project
• 10. Rethinking Development Notes References Glossary/Index.
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Explores development through historical narrative and examines the globalization/development paradox through in-depth case studies. In his Fifth Edition of Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective, author Philip McMichael examines the project of globalization and its instabilities (climate, energy, food, financial crises) through the lens of development and its origins in the colonial project. The book continues to help students make sense of a complex world in transition and explains how globalization became part of public discourse. Filled with case studies, this text makes the intricacies of globalization concrete, meaningful, and clear for students and moves them away from simple social evolutionary views, encouraging them to connect social change, development policies, global inequalities and social movements. The book challenges students to see themselves as global citizens whose consumption decisions have real social and ecological implications. Key Features: * a world-historical perspective that situates globalization in the declining fortunes of the postwar development project, and considers current global limits and possibilities * a political perspective that views development and globalization as discursive practices managed by historic elite groupings, as mechanisms of power and world ordering * an ecological perspective drawing attention to the environmental consequences of development and attempts to reintegrate social life in ecological cycles * an emphasis on resistance and social movements as actors shaping the meaning and direction of these projects, in addition to building alternatives * a series of case studies that allow in-depth examination of development/globalization dilemmas and paradoxes to interrupt the idea of a linear process. New to the Fifth Edition: * developmental impacts of the rise of the BRICS * structural adjustment and new inequalities come to the global North * 'de-growth' philosophies * the re-centering of agriculture in light of the food, energy and climate crises * land-grabbing and biofuels * green technologies and climate proofing * transition towns and re-localization * new democratic movements.
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The Archives contains the administrative and operational records created by the World Bank Group institutions, and offers a vast amount of original primary source research material related to economic development. The primary records contained in the World Bank Group Archives are the operational correspondence records for each country. These records, which are located in the six Regional Vice Presidency fonds contain general information about member countries and detailed information on each development project carried out in the country. The operational correspondence records are a source of historical information on the country economy as a whole, as well as the status of particular sectors of the economy, such as transportation, rural development, education, health and nutrition, infrastructure, etc. The World Bank Group Archives also contains a large amount of non-textual records such as photographs and audio-visual materials related to development projects and development assistance, as well as oral history interviews conducted with individuals significant in Bank Group history.

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. 1 Development as an ideology for empire : The civilizing mission in the interwar years
• Modernity and authoritarian rule
• The Second World War. 2 Truman's dream: when the Cold War and development met : Point four
• Studying backward areas: social scientists, the Marshall Plan, and the limits of the Cold War. 3 Socialist modernity and the birth of the Third World : Ideology put to the test on the colonial question
• The age of indifference
• The afterthought
• The age of neutralism, or the birth of the Third World
• Khrushchev's challenge
• Features of socialist aid: constructing the ideological framework
• The political economy of socialist cooperation. 4 Western alternatives for development in the global Cold War : The inevitability of foreign aid as a Cold War tool?
• Plans for Eurafrica
• An ideology for the global Cold War: the rise of modernization theory
• The Kennedy administration: a turning point? 5 The limits of bipolarity in the golden age of modernization : The cooperation imperative in the West
• Disappointments: the United States and bickering in the DAC
• Rostow and the idea of binding rules
• The European economic community way
• Coordination among socialist countries: the permanent commission for technical assistance in Comecon - Responding to external challenges. 6 International organizations and development as a global mission : Precedents: the League of Nations
• Development as profession after the Second World War
• The World Bank
• The United Nations and development: the place for an alternative?
• UNCTAD
• Assessing aid at the end of the first development decade. 7 Multiple modernities and socialist alternatives in the 1970s : The Soviet Union reinterprets the two worlds theory
• Convergence and interdependence
• Third World visions
• China's development alternative
• Self-reliance? Tanzania between the Tazara Railway and Ujamaa
• Third Worldism and the new international economic order. 8 Resources, environment and development: the difficult nexus : The end of technological optimism?
• Recasting the problems of modern society
• The emergence of global environmentalism: Stockholm, 1972
• Environment and development as seen from the East
• The legacy of Stockholm and the invention of sustainable development. 9 Responding to the challenges from the global south: north-south dialogues : The birth of basic needs in the second development decade
• The Lomé Revolution
• A regional plan: the Euro-Arab dialogue
• North-south dialogue: the global dimension
• Development and human rights. 10 The dynamics of the lost decade. Conclusions. Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

In the Cold War, "development" was a catchphrase that came to signify progress, modernity, and economic growth. Development aid was closely aligned with the security concerns of the great powers, for whom infrastructure and development projects were ideological tools for conquering hearts and minds around the globe, from Europe and Africa to Asia and Latin America. In this sweeping and incisive book, Sara Lorenzini provides a global history of development, drawing on a wealth of archival evidence to offer a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a Cold War phenomenon that transformed the modern world. Taking readers from the aftermath of the Second World War to the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, Lorenzini shows how development projects altered local realities, transnational interactions, and even ideas about development itself. She shines new light on the international organizations behind these projects-examining their strategies and priorities and assessing the actual results on the ground-and she also gives voice to the recipients of development aid. Lorenzini shows how the Cold War shaped the global ambitions of development on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and how international organizations promoted an unrealistically harmonious vision of development that did not reflect local and international differences. An unparalleled journey into the political, intellectual, and economic history of the twentieth century, this book presents a global perspective on Cold War development, demonstrating how its impacts are still being felt today.
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• The formative years
• DePauw College, Harvard Law School, and Helen
• A young professional makes his mark
• The Wisconsin Public Service Commission : crucible for a reformer
• TVA : the tumultuous years
• TVA : vindication and consolidation
• Crafting a vision
• TVA : wartime administration and expansion
• The atomic trust : bright fires, bright hopes
• The atomic trust : reality
• Mid-century passage : transformation and transition
• Lilienthal and the world
• Life at a "high trot" : unfinished business
• Assessment.

• I. A kor és ők
• II. Közös vállalkozásaik: A Lánchíd
• Vasutak
• Szabályozási és csatornatervek
• A tiszai árvízvédekezés alternatívái ma.

In the 1960s and 1970s, in the midst of the Cold War and an international decolonization movement, development advocates believed that poverty could be ended, at home and abroad. The Global Politics of Poverty in Canada explores the relationship between poverty, democracy, and development during this remarkable period. Will Langford analyzes three Canadian development programs that unfolded on local, regional, and international scales. He reveals the interconnections of anti-poverty activism carried out by the Company of Young Canadians among Metis in northern Alberta and francophones in Montreal, by the Cape Breton Development Corporation, and by Canadian University Service Overseas in Tanzania. In dialogue with the New Left, liberal reformers committed to development programs they believed would empower the poor to confront their own poverty and thereby foster a more meaningful democracy. However, democracy and development proved to be fundamentally contested, and development programs stopped short of amending capitalist social relations and the inequalities they engendered. The Global Politics of Poverty in Canada explores how Canadians engaged in informal and formal politics in the course of their everyday lives, locally and transnationally. Langford provides an enduring record of otherwise fleeting anti-poverty programs and their effects: the lived activism and opinions of development workers and ordinary people.
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Providing new insight on the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the Cold War, Michael Latham reveals how social science theory helped shape American foreign policy during the Kennedy administration. He shows how, in the midst of America's protracted struggle to contain communism in the developing world, the concept of global modernization moved beyond its beginnings in academia to become a motivating ideology behind policy decisions. After tracing the rise of modernization theory in American social science, Latham analyzes the way its core assumptions influenced the Kennedy administration's Alliance for Progress with Latin America, the creation of the Peace Corps, and the strategic hamlet program in Vietnam. But as he demonstrates, modernizers went beyond insisting on the relevance of America's experience to the dilemmas faced by impoverished countries. Seeking to accelerate the movement of foreign societies toward a liberal, democratic, and capitalist modernity, Kennedy and his advisers also reiterated a much deeper sense of their own nation's vital strengths and essential benevolence. At the height of the Cold War, Latham argues, modernization recast older ideologies of Manifest Destiny and imperialism.
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• Machine generated contents note:
• 1. "So That Community Can Better Help Itself": The Company of Young Canadians and Community Development in Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta, 1966 -- 76
• 2. "Something's Going to Have to Change around Here": The Company of Young Canadians, Community Development, and Indigenous Politics in Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta, 1966 -- 76
• 3. "Un petit pouvoir": The Compagnie des jeunes Canadiens, Animation Sociale, and Citizens' Committees in Little Burgundy, Montreal, 1967 -- 74
• 4. "Une democratie quotidienne": The Compagnie des jeunes Canadiens, Animation Sociale, and Workers' Activism in Saint-Henri, Montreal, 1967 -- 74
• 5. "Industrial Prospecting": The Cape Breton Development Corporation, Regional Development, and Industry, 1967 -- 71
• 6. "A Special Kind of Place": The Cape Breton Development Corporation, Regional Development, and Entrepreneurship, 1972 -- 77
• 7. "Positively Identified with the Direction of the Country": Canadian University Service Overseas, Development Assistance, and Liberal Internationalism in Tanzania, 1964 -- 79
• 8. "The Liberation of Peoples": Canadian University Service Overseas and Left-Leaning International Development Assistance in Tanzania, 1972 -- 79.

In the 1960s and 1970s, in the midst of the Cold War and an international decolonization movement, development advocates believed that poverty could be ended, at home and abroad. The Global Politics of Poverty in Canada explores the relationship between poverty, democracy, and development during this remarkable period. Will Langford analyzes three Canadian development programs that unfolded on local, regional, and international scales. He reveals the interconnections of anti-poverty activism carried out by the Company of Young Canadians among Metis in northern Alberta and francophones in Montreal, by the Cape Breton Development Corporation, and by Canadian University Service Overseas in Tanzania. In dialogue with the New Left, liberal reformers committed to development programs they believed would empower the poor to confront their own poverty and thereby foster a more meaningful democracy. However, democracy and development proved to be fundamentally contested, and development programs stopped short of amending capitalist social relations and the inequalities they engendered. The Global Politics of Poverty in Canada explores how Canadians engaged in informal and formal politics in the course of their everyday lives, locally and transnationally. Langford provides an enduring record of otherwise fleeting anti-poverty programs and their effects: the lived activism and opinions of development workers and ordinary people.
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• Foreword; Acknowledgments;
• 1. Modernization as Ideology;
• 2. American Social Science, Modernization Theory, and the Cold War;
• 3. Modernity, Anticommunism, and the Alliance for Progress;
• 4. Modernization for Peace;
• 5. Modernization at War; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Providing new insight on the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the Cold War, Michael Latham reveals how social science theory helped shape American foreign policy during the Kennedy administration. He shows how, in the midst of America's protracted struggle to contain communism in the developing world, the concept of global modernization moved beyond its beginnings in academia to become a motivating ideology behind policy decisions. After tracing the rise of modernization theory in American social science, Latham analyzes the way its core assumptions influenced the Kennedy administration's Alliance for Progress with Latin America, the creation of the Peace Corps, and the strategic hamlet program in Vietnam. But as he demonstrates, modernizers went beyond insisting on the relevance of America's experience to the dilemmas faced by impoverished countries. Seeking to accelerate the movement of foreign societies toward a liberal, democratic, and capitalist modernity, Kennedy and his advisers also reiterated a much deeper sense of their own nation's vital strengths and essential benevolence. At the height of the Cold War, Latham argues, modernization recast older ideologies of Manifest Destiny and imperialism.
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