Mandarins of the Future
Subtitle: Modernization Theory in Cold War America (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: February 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780801886331
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; International relations; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; History; Politics / Current Events; History: American; USA; International Relations - Diplomacy; Political Ideologies - General; United States - 20th Century; Business & Economics / Economic Development; History-United States - 20th Century; Political Science / Political Ideologies / General; Political Science-International Relations - Diplomacy; Development - Economic Development; Government & Business; United States - General
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.