Book ID: CBB297122516

Mandarins of the future: Modernization theory in Cold War America (2003)

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Gilman, Nils (Author)


The Johns Hopkins University Press


Publication Date: 2003
Physical Details: xi, 329
Language: English

After a survey of modernization theory's origins and its role in forming America's postwar sense of global mission, Gilman offers a close analysis of the people who did the most to promote it in the United States and the academic institutions they came to dominate. He first explains how Talcott Parsons at Harvard constructed a social theory that challenged the prevailing economics-centered understanding of the modernization process, then describes the work of Edward Shils and Gabriel Almond in helping Parsonsian ideas triumph over other alternative conceptions of the development process, and finally discusses the role of Walt Rostow and his colleagues at M.I.T. in promoting modernization theory during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. By connecting modernization theory to the welfare-state liberalism programs of the New Deal, Gilman not only provides a new intellectual context for America's policies toward the Third World during the cold war, but also connects the optimism of the Great Society to the notion that American power and good intentions could prevent the post-colonial world from embracing communism. (Publisher)

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Authors & Contributors
Heidenblad, David Larsson
Tommaso Sbriccoli
Alice Tilche
Matten, Marc Andre
Kerkhoff, Kathinka Sinha
James Livesey
Concepts
Modernization
Politics and government
Postcolonialism
Economic policy
Intellectual life
Economic history
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
18th century
20th century, late
Modern
Places
United States
India
United Kingdom
Languedoc
Middle and Near East
Timor Island
Institutions
United States. Department of the Treasury
UNESCO
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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