Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey

by Begüm Adalet

Book Overview

The early decades of the Cold War presented seemingly boundless opportunity for the construction of "laboratories" of American society abroad: microcosms where experts could scale down problems of geopolitics to manageable size, and where locals could be systematically directed toward American visions of capitalist modernity. Among the most critical tools in the U.S.'s ideological arsenal was modernization theory, and Turkey emerged as a vital...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150360554X
• ISBN13: 9781503605541
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.4"