History, Historians and Development Policy: A Necessary Dialogue

by Simon Szreter, Vijayendra Rao, Michael Woolcock

Book Overview

If history matters for understanding key development outcomes then surely historians should be active contributors to the debates informing these understandings. This volume integrates, for the first time, contributions from ten leading historians and seven policy advisors around the central development issues of social protection, public health, public education and natural resource management. How did certain ideas, and not others, gain traction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719085764
• ISBN13: 9780719085765
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"