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  • The Price of Aid

    The Economic Cold War in India

    by David C. Engerman ...
    This study of US and Soviet aid efforts in India during the Cold War "makes a major contribution towards a necessary discussion of the politics of aid" ( Times Higher Education).Debates over foreign aid are often strangely ahistorical. Economists argue about how to make aid work while critics bemoan money wasted on corruption, ignoring the fundamentally political character of aid. The Price of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Apostles of Development

    Six Economists and the World They Made

    by David C. Engerman ...
    Apostles of Development recounts the work of six individuals, all former classmates at Cambridge University, who helped make international development--the effort to reduce poverty and inequality around the world--into a juggernaut of the second half of the twentieth century. International development employed millions, affected billions, and spent trillions; it held the hopes of the former ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 4, 1945 to the Present

    Edited by David C. Engerman, Max Paul Friedman, Melani McAlister ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of America and the World
    The fourth volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines the heights of American global power in the mid-twentieth century and how challenges from at home and abroad altered the United States and its role in the world. The second half of the twentieth century marked the pinnacle of American global power in economic, political, and cultural terms, but even as it reached such ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Modernization from the Other Shore

    American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development

    by David C. Engerman ...
    From the late nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, America's experts on Russia watched as Russia and the Soviet Union embarked on a course of rapid industrialization. Captivated by the idea of modernization, diplomats, journalists, and scholars across the political spectrum rationalized the enormous human cost of this path to progress. In a fascinating examination of this crucial era, ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

  • Russian/Soviet Studies in the United States, Amerikanistika in Russia

    Mutual Representations in Academic Projects

    by Olga Yu. Antsyferova, Marina B. Bulanova, David C. Engerman, Milla Fedorova, Vladimir Gel'man, Mark Kramer, Alexander I. Kubyshkin, Vladimir V. Noskov, Alexander B. Okun, Norman E. Saul, Iana V. Shchetinskaia0, Vladimir V. Sogrin1, Ivan Tsvetkov2, William B. Whisenhunt3, Sergei I. Zhuk4, Richard T. De George5, Ivan Kurilla6, Victoria I. Zhuravleva8 ...
    The contributors in this interdisciplinary collection address the problem of interconnection between the study of the “Other,” either Russian or American, and the shaping of national identities in the two countries at different stages of US–Russian relations. The focus of research interests were typically determined by the political and social debates in scholars’ native countries. In this book, ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Know Your Enemy

    The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts

    by David C. Engerman ...
    As World War II ended, few Americans in government or universities knew much about the Soviet Union. As David Engerman shows in this book, a network of scholars, soldiers, spies, and philanthropists created an enterprise known as Soviet Studies to fill in this dangerous gap in American knowledge. This group brought together some of the nation's best minds from the left, right, and center, colorful ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Know Your Enemy

    The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts

    by David C. Engerman ...
    As World War II ended, few Americans in government or universities knew much about the Soviet Union. As David Engerman shows in this book, a network of scholars, soldiers, spies, and philanthropists created an enterprise known as Soviet Studies to fill in this dangerous gap in American knowledge. This group brought together some of the nation's best minds from the left, right, and center, colorful ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy

    Edited by David M. Malone, C. Raja Mohan, Srinath Raghavan ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Following the end of the Cold War, the economic reforms in the early 1990s, and ensuing impressive growth rates, India has emerged as a leading voice in global affairs, particularly on international economic issues. Its domestic market is fast-growing and India is becoming increasingly important to global geo-strategic calculations, at a time when it has been outperforming many other growing ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Phoenix Moment

    Challenges Confronting the Indian Left

    by Praful Bidwai ...
    'Praful Bidwai's analysis and conclusions compel serious engagement both by academics and political leaders.' - K.N. Panikkar'Bidwai's assessments will undoubtedly trigger further discussion.' - Romila Thapar'Praful raises the right questions and is scrupulously fair.' - Susan GeorgeIndia still has a significant and relatively powerful communist movement. In spite of the massive set... ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • A Superpower Transformed

    The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s

    by Daniel J. Sargent ...
    During the 1970s, American foreign policy faced a predicament of clashing imperatives-US decision makers, already struggling to maintain stability and devise strategic frameworks to guide the exercise of American power during the Cold War, found themselves hampered by the emergence of dilemmas that would come to a head in the post-Cold War era. Their choices proved to be of enormous consequence ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The Cold War in the Third World

    Edited by Robert J. McMahon ...
    Series series Reinterpreting History: How Historical Assessments Change over Time
    The Cold War in the Third World explores the complex interrelationships between the Soviet-American struggle for global preeminence and the rise of the Third World. Those two distinct but overlapping phenomena placed a powerful stamp on world history throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Featuring original essays by twelve leading scholars, this collection examines the influence of ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Slouching Towards Utopia

    An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

    by J. Bradford DeLong ...
    **This instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world’s leading economists offers a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, but left us unsatisfied.“A magisterial history.” —Paul KrugmanNamed a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times * Economist * Fast Company**Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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