Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Development as an Ideology for Empire 9
6. 2. Truman’s Dream 22
7. 3. Socialist Modernity and the Birth of the Third World 33
8. 4. Western Alternatives for Development in the Global Cold War 50
9. 5. The Limits of Bipolarity in the Golden Age of Modernization 68
10. 6. International Organizations and Development as a Global Mission 89
11. 7. Multiple Modernities and Socialist Alternatives in the 1970s 107
12. 8. Resources, Environment, and Development 124
13. 9. Responding to the Challenges from the Global South 142
14. 10. The Dynamics of the Lost Decade 160
15. Conclusions 169
16. Notes 179
17. Bibliography 227
18. Index 263
19. A NOTE ON THE TYPE 277