Mandarins of the future
Subtitle: modernization theory in Cold War America
By: Nils Gilman.
Series: New studies in American intellectual and cultural history
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Subjects: Postcolonialism.; Social change -- Philosophy.; Social change -- Developing countries.; Economic development -- Philosophy.; National characteristics, American.; Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Developing countries -- Economic policy.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : modernization theory and American modernism; title: Contests : the European past and the American present; title: The Harvard Department of Social Relations; title: SSRC's Committee on Comparative Politics; title: The MIT Center for International Studies; title: The collapse of modernization theory; title: The postmodern turn and the aftermath of modernization theory.