The hungry world is an immensely important book cullather has performed a tremendous service, and written a book not just of interest but of lasting value in showing in detail and with great discernment just how new, and also how radical, development was when it first began to transform the ways powerful nations thought about everything. Hawley prize from the organization of american historians for his work recounting a neglected battleground of the cold war food in the book the hungry world. Cullather s history of the green revolution, the hungry world. Americas cold war battle against poverty in asia, was just published by harvard university press.
All events will take place in the 2nd floor common room of the heyman center for the humanities. It is an utterly fascinating storypartially about the economics of famine, but mostly about the irrepressible postwar generation who genuinely believed american technology could win the battle for asian hearts and minds, and stop communism in its tracks. Where communism goes, hunger follows was the slogan of american nation builders who fanned out into the countryside to divert rivers, remodel villages, and introduce tractors, chemicals, and genes to multiply the crops consumed by millions. The hungry world is the invaluable beginning of that rewriting. Any reading for which a link is not provided is available at book culture on 112th and at butler reserves. The hungry world furnishes a striking vantage on development policy, as well as on the decidedly mixed outcomes of american engagement with asian politics.
Norman borlaugs complicated legacy history news network. Nick cullather has 18 books on goodreads with 1218 ratings. Cullather has performed a tremendous service, and written a book not just of interest but of lasting value in showing in detail and with great discernment just how new, and also how radical, development was when it first began to transform the ways powerful nations thought about everything. International development in history, spring 2012, columbia university.
Nick cullather s masterful book confirms, if we had any doubts, that this is the. Foreign policy from the cold war to the present, by michael e. Nick cullather s most popular book is secret history. Yet, as with so much of the scholarship in this field, cullather s powerful challenge to the dominant narrative leaves few clues as to what a. Americas cold war battle against poverty in asia by nick cullather isbn.
See all books authored by nick cullather, including secret history. Americas cold war battle against poverty in asia ebook. Nick cullather writes on the history of development and nation building. Nick cullather books list of books by author nick cullather. Americas cold war battle against poverty in asia cullather, nick on. A roundtable discussion of nick cullather s the hungry world. Growing up in the 1960s, nick cullather couldnt see any connection between the peas growing cold on his plate and the problems of china. The united states uses aid, covert operations, diet, statistics, and technology to reconstruct the social reality of countries around the world, and i am interested in these subtle mechanisms of power. Americas cold war battle against poverty in asia, by nick cullather. Nick cullather s exploration of the critical linkages between power politics, scientific and technical assistance, famine alarms and schemes to increase food production is one of the most original and engaging books to date on the impact of the cold war on the emerging states of the developing world. Americas cold war battle against hunger in asia erez manela, amy sayward, david ekbladh, meredith oyen, and nick cullather roundtable on nick cullather, the hungry world erez manela n ot long ago, aha president linda kerber famously declared that now we are. The complicated legacy of the man who tried to feed the world. But as his new book, the hungry world, explains, his mothers warning captured one of the key ideas of the era.
Concerned with the salience of the specific politics, culture, and context in which development policies are pursued, cullather may be wise to reject a counternarrative to the myth. The hungry world is an immensely important book, and i am emphatically not arguing that cullather has simply produced a more historically researchrich. How is the midwest depicted in books, movies and tv shows. Americas cold war battle against poverty in asia as a history of the green revolution does not begin to convey the ambition and rewards of nick cullather s new book. His research interests include us diplomatic history and intelligence, and he is notable especially for his studies of the role of the cia in nation building in latin america. Iu historian receives hawley prize for cold war book.
Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Americas cold war battle against poverty in asia nick cullather. He is the author of two other books, secret history, a study of the cias overthrow of guatemalas government, and illusions. Cullather s analysis is very compelling, and this wellwritten book is a tremendous accomplishment. Cullather has written an engrossing historic previous of how the usa authorities, along with private philanthropies identical to the ford and rockefeller foundations, aimed to win the hearts and our our bodies of rural asia inside the publish world warfare ii many years by crafting strategies to develop and modernize agriculture and the peasants way of life. The cias classified account of its operations in guatemala, 19521954, and making a nation. Cullather has written an engrossing history of how the united states government, along with private philanthropies like the ford and rockefeller foundations, aimed to win the hearts and bodies of rural asia in the post world war ii decades by crafting strategies to develop and modernize agriculture and the.
This aeoegreen revolutionae has been credited with averting malthusian famines, saving. David rieff, the nation cullathers book amounts to a thorough, gracefully written debunking of what might be called the green revolution master narrative cullathers brilliant, concise early chapter on the green revolutions birth in mexico anchors his broader argument. Cullather has written an engrossing history of how the united states government, along with private philanthropies like the ford and rockefeller foundations, aimed. Americas cold war battle against poverty in asia by nick cullather. Americas cold war battle against poverty in asia 2010, which won the ellis hawley prize for economic history, the robert ferrell prize in diplomatic history, and was shortlisted for the lionel gelber prize for the best book on a global policy issue. Satiated and hungry for more diplomatic history oxford. David rieff, the nation cullathers book amounts to a thorough, gracefully written debunking of what might be called the green revolution master narrative. Nick cullather is an american historian and professor of history at indiana university. Food was a critical front in the cold war battle for asia. Cullather has written an engrossing history of how the united states government, along with private philanthropies like the ford and rockefeller foundations, aimed to win the hearts and bodies of rural asia in the post world war ii decades by crafting strategies to develop and modernize agriculture and the peasants way of life. My first book, illusions of influence 1994, described the process through which a former american. David rieff, the nation cullather s book amounts to a thorough, gracefully written debunking of what might be called the green revolution master narrative cullather s brilliant, concise early chapter on the green revolutions birth in mexico anchors his broader. Nick cullather food was a critical front in the cold war battle for asia, where communism goes, hunger follows was the slogan of american nation builders who fanned out into the countryside to divert rivers. Cullather s book amounts to a thorough, gracefully written debunking of what might be called.
My most recent book the hungry world 2010, explores the use of food as a tool of psychological warfare and regime change during the cold war. The united states and its people, volume i, and more on. It once was a refrain of every parent frustrated by a picky eater. It is an utterly fascinating storypartially about the economics of famine, but mostly about the irrepressible postwar generation who genuinely believed american technology could. In less than three hundred pages, hungry world offers a detailed diplomatic, intellectual, and cultural history that spans more than a century and three continents. Indiana university bloomington college of arts and sciences historian nick cullather has received the 2011 ellis w. In his 2010 book the hungry world, the university of indiana historian nick cullather does just that. Yet one wonders what it will take to inspire a sustained, successful response to the persistence of deep poverty and hunger in a world of abundance. The hungry world nick cullather harvard university press. Hungry world tells complex story of food and global. A roundtable discussion of nick cullathers the hungry. Modernization and the construction of an american world order by david ekbladh and the hungry world.
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