LEADER 03623nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910789851803321 005 20230725030922.0 010 $a0-674-05882-8 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674058828 035 $a(CKB)2670000000079372 035 $a(OCoLC)733323635 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10456065 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000485073 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12211972 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000485073 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10594873 035 $a(PQKB)11756946 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300898 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300898 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10456065 035 $a(DE-B1597)585414 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674058828 035 $a(OCoLC)1301547788 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000079372 100 $a20100318d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe hungry world$b[electronic resource] $eAmerica's cold war battle against poverty in Asia /$fNick Cullather 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (369 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-05078-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe world food problem -- Mexico's way out -- A continent of peasants -- We shall release the waters -- A very big, very poor country -- Parable of seeds -- You can't eat steel -- The meaning of famine -- The conquest of hunger -- Present at the recreation. 330 $aCullather has written an engrossing history of how the United States government, along with private philanthropies like the Ford and Rockefeller foundations, aimed to win the hearts and bodies of rural Asia in the post World War II decades by crafting strategies to develop and modernize agriculture and the peasant?s way of life. He explains how America used foreign aid, modernization theory, nutrition, statistics, and technology, to try to reconstruct the social and political order of the decolonized and disadvantaged countries in the region. Initially the issue of how best to intervene in Asia?s rural countryside was contentious, with clashing visions of development and humanitarian aid being argued throughout the 50?s and 60?s. Ultimately, one strategy displaced all the others?the ?Green Revolution? and the ability to feed millions through the miracle of genetically designed dwarf strains of grain and rice. Cullather provides a detailed explanation of how this policy of feeding Asian peasants became the single strategy of ?progress? adopted by the US rather than industrialization or land reform. As current controversy swirls about how best to aid Africa in the crisis of nation-building, famine, and a poverty-stricken peasantry, the story of the U.S. interventions in Asia become starkly relevant. 606 $aAgricultural assistance, American$zAsia 606 $aEconomic assistance, American$zAsia 606 $aFood supply$zAsia 606 $aFood relief$zAsia 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zAsia 607 $aAsia$xForeign relations$zUnited States 615 0$aAgricultural assistance, American 615 0$aEconomic assistance, American 615 0$aFood supply 615 0$aFood relief 676 $a338.1/873095 686 $aQS 800$2rvk 700 $aCullather$b Nick$f1959-$0685339 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789851803321 996 $aThe hungry world$92316830 997 $aUNINA