Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Author: United States. International Development Agency
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Author: David Ekbladh
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691152454
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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The Great American Mission traces how America's global modernization efforts during the twentieth century were a means to remake the world in its own image. David Ekbladh shows that the emerging concept of modernization combined existing development ideas from the Depression. He describes how ambitious New Deal programs like the Tennessee Valley Authority became symbols of American liberalism's ability to marshal the social sciences, state planning, civil society, and technology to produce extensive social and economic change. For proponents, it became a valuable weapon to check the influence of menacing ideologies such as Fascism and Communism. Modernization took on profound geopolitical importance as the United States grappled with these threats. After World War II, modernization remained a means to contain the growing influence of the Soviet Union. Ekbladh demonstrates how U.S.-led nation-building efforts in global hot spots, enlisting an array of nongovernmental groups and international organizations, were a basic part of American strategy in the Cold War. However, a close connection to the Vietnam War and the upheavals of the 1960s would discredit modernization. The end of the Cold War further obscured modernization's mission, but many of its assumptions regained prominence after September 11 as the United States moved to contain new threats. Using new sources and perspectives, The Great American Mission offers new and challenging interpretations of America's ideological motivations and humanitarian responsibilities abroad.

Author: Andrew C. Nahm
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810849495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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This dictionary presents a balanced and objective view of South Korea, providing a long perspective and covering varied aspects of South Korean life. Domestic, political, and social events, foreign affairs, economic and cultural developments, and the men and women who have influenced the country's history are reviewed in the more than 400 entries, many of which are new or have been updated from the first edition. The dictionary's chronology and historical narrative, also updated, cover the entire history of Korea for the benefit of readers who have little or no knowledge of the overall history of the Korean people. The extensive bibliography has been updated to include the most current and best books, journals, and websites, making this a valuable reference source for the scholar, student, and general reader.

Author: Dong Baek Yook
Publisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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Author: United States. Agency for International Development. Bureau for Program and Policy Coordination
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Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: Jeffrey M. Paige
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0029235502
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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A theory of rural class conflict. World patterns. Peru: Hacienda and plantation. Angola: The migratory labor estate. Vietnam: Sharecropping.

Author: Paul Hang-Sik Cho
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1610974352
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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This book raises the question of why Korean people, and Korean Protestant Christians in particular, pay so little attention (in theory or practice) to ecological issues. The author argues that there is an important connection (or elective affinity) between this lack of attention and the otherworldly eschatology that is so dominant within Korean Protestant Christianity. Dispensational premillennialism, originally imported by American missionaries, resonated with traditional religious beliefs in Korea and soon came to dominate much of Korean Protestantism. This book argues that this, of all forms of millennialism, is the most damaging to ecological concerns. It also suggests how Korean churches may effectively respond to the ecological challenge.

Author: United States. Agency for International Development
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Category : Land reform
Languages : en
Pages : 920

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Author: Sang-Chul Suh
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684172144
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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A detailed exploration of the development of the Korean economy during the colonial period. The work's objectives include the measurement of the rate of growth of the Korean economy during this thirty-year period and an explanation of the unique growth patterns experienced under Japanese occupation. One of the studies on the economic and social modernization of Korea undertaken jointly by the Harvard Institute for International Development and the Korea Development Institute.