{"product_id":"mandarins-of-the-future-modernization-theory-in-cold-war-america-9780801886331","title":"Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America","description":"\u003cp\u003eBecause 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 \u003ci\u003eMandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America\u003c\/i\u003e Nils Gilman offers the first intellectual history of a movement that has had far-reaching and often unintended consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter a survey of the theory's origins and its role in forming America's postwar sense of global mission, Gilman offers a close analysis of the people who did the most to promote it in the United States and the academic institutions they came to dominate. He first explains how Talcott Parsons at Harvard constructed a social theory that challenged the prevailing economics-centered understanding of the modernization process, then describes the work of Edward Shils and Gabriel Almond in helping Parsonsian ideas triumph over other alternative conceptions of the development process, and finally discusses the role of Walt Rostow and his colleagues at M.I.T. in promoting modernization theory during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. By connecting modernization theory to the welfare state liberalism programs of the New Deal order, Gilman not only provides a new intellectual context for America's Third World during the Cold War, but also connects the optimism of the Great Society to the notion that American power and good intentions could stop the postcolonial world from embracing communism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nils Gilman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.35h x 5.80w x 0.96d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801886331\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNils Gilman\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent scholar and practitioner at the Global Business Network in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40136299282547,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":30.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_1488c893-3605-42dc-a97f-6732fa0a352a.jpg?v=1654263066","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/mandarins-of-the-future-modernization-theory-in-cold-war-america-9780801886331","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}