Mandarins of the Future
Subtitle: Modernization Theory in Cold War America (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: January 7, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780801873997
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Social theory; Sociology; Political Ideologies - General; United States - 20th Century; Intellectual life; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Social change; USA; International Relations - Diplomacy; Business & Economics / Economic Development; Developing countries; United States; Anthropology - Cultural; 20th century; Philosophy; Postcolonialism
First sentence: On a steamy June morning in 1959, sociologist Edward Shils strode to the podium of a conference hall on the former Rockefeller estate in Dobbs Ferry, New York, to deliver the keynote address at a conference on the political problems and prospects of the "new states" in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.