Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America

by Nils Gilman

Book Overview

Because it provided the dominant framework for "development" of poor, postcolonial countries, modernization theory ranks among the most important constructs of twentieth-century social science. In Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America Nils Gilman offers the first intellectual history of a movement that has had far-reaching and often unintended consequences.

After a survey of the theory's origins and its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801886333
• ISBN13: 9780801886331
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher