Staging Growth
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African development pathways
anti-communist policy rationales
Asian modernization trajectories
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Cold War developmental agendas
Cold War global interactions
comparative Cold War studies
comparative modernization studies
contested visions of progress
cross-cultural development visions
cultural impacts of industrial progress
development narratives and power
development theory critiques
developmental ideologies across continents
developmental state dynamics
developmentalism in global context
divergent national growth routes
economic evolution across regions
economic history of the Cold War
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evolving concepts of modernity
geopolitical development frameworks
global history of economic change
global modernization debates
global modernization networks
global production expansion
global social change models
global South development history
ideological diffusion across nations
industrial progress narratives
industrial transformation debates
intellectual history of development
international economic transformation
modern development controversies
modernization and glo
modernization as cultural project
modernization versus Western models
modernization's political legacy
policy debates on progress
postcolonial growth strategies
postwar development ideology
rising living-standard aspirations
South Asian growth histories
transnational cultural exchange and growth
transnational growth paradigms
transregional policy comparisons
twentieth-century development theory
U.S. foreign policy influence
Product details
- ISBN 9781558493704
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 153 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 19 Mar 2003
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A timely reassessment of modernization theory and its international impact; Beginning in the 1950s, the theory of modernization emerged as the dominant paradigm of economic, social, and political develoment within the American foreign policy establishment. Purporting to explain the stages through which all nations pass on the road to industrial modernity, it provided a rationale for a broad range of cultural and political projects aimed at fostering Third World growth while simultaneously combating communism. But modernization theory was more than simply an expression of Cold War ideology. As the essays in this volume show, the ideal of modernization proliferated throughout the postcolonial world and across ideological lines in places as diverse as East Asia, Southern Africa, and South Asia. Indeed, it was embraced by all who shared the American enthusiasm for the increased production and higher standards of living promised by industrialization - enemies and allies alike. Situating modernization theory historically, Staging Growth avoids conventional chronologies and categories of analysis, particularly the traditional focus on conflicts between major powers. The contributors employ a variety of approaches - from economic and intellectual history to cultural criticism and biography - to shed fresh light on the global forces that shaped the Cold War and its legacies. Most of the pieces are comparative, exploring how different countries and cultures have grappled with the implications of modern development. At the same time, all of the essays address similar fundamental questions. Is modernization the same thing as Westernization? Is the idea of modernization universally valid? Do countries follow similar trajectories as they undertake development? Does modernization bring about globalization? In addition to the editors and Akira Iriye, contributors include Michael Adas, Laura Belmonte, Gregg Andrew Brazinsky, Christina Klein, J. Victor Koschmann, and Michael R. Mahoney.
