Enlightened Aid: U.S. Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia

by Amanda Kay McVety

Book Overview

Enlightened Aid is a unique history of foreign aid. The book begins with the modern concept of progress in the Scottish Enlightenment, follows the development of this concept in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century economics and anthropology, describes its transformation from a concept into a tool of foreign policy, and ends with the current debate about foreign aid's utility.

In his 1949 inaugural address, Harry Truman vowed to make the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199796912
• ISBN13: 9780199796915
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.4"