Their Future: A History of Ahistoricism in International Development

by Michael Gubser

A compelling examination of how economic development projects ignore local history, and of the effects of this shortsightedness

Foreign aid planners rarely consider the history of the societies in which they work, an oversight noted but underexamined in the development literature. Aid programs costing billions of dollars operate largely in a historical vacuum, divorced from the knowledge of what succeeded or failed in the past. This...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300275811
• ISBN13: 9780300275810
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 408 Pages