The hungry world
Subtitle: America's cold war battle against poverty in Asia
By: Nick Cullather.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780674050785
Subjects: Agricultural assistance, American -- Asia; Economic assistance, American -- Asia; Food supply -- Asia; Food relief -- Asia; United States -- Foreign relations -- Asia; Asia -- Foreign relations -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The world food problem; title: Mexico's way out; title: A continent of peasants; title: We shall release the waters; title: A very big, very poor country; title: Parable of seeds; title: You can't eat steel; title: The meaning of famine; title: The conquest of hunger; title: Present at the recreation.