Perspectives on the History of Global Development /

Perspectives on the History of Global Development / / ed. by Iris Borowy, Corinna R. Unger, Nicholas Ferns, Jack Loveridge.

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What is development, what has it been in the past, and what can historians learn from studying the history of development? How has the field of the history of development evolved over time, and where should it be going in the future?

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MitwirkendeR:
Abdallah, Saamah,
Borowy, Iris,
Cooper, Frederick,
Cullather, Nick,
Daly, Herman,
Diefenbacher, Hans,
D’Souza, Rohan,
Ferns, Nicholas,
Freeman, Dena,
Helleiner, Eric,
Kalinovsky, Artemy M.,
Kröss, Verena,
Loveridge, Jack,
Macekura, Stephen,
Rempel, Ruth,
Unger, Corinna R.,
Ura, Karma,
Zanasi, Margherita,
HerausgeberIn:
Borowy, Iris,
Ferns, Nicholas,
Loveridge, Jack,
Unger, Corinna R.,
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Yearbook for the History of Global Development Ser.
Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 270 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • I Development and History (ed. Corinna R. Unger and Nicholas Ferns)
  • Globalizing Development: A View from Late Imperial China
  • Where Did the Idea of International Development Come From? Looking Beyond the Industrialized Core
  • Entangled Histories of “Development,” “development,” and “Christian development”
  • Development, Modernization, and the Remaking of an Imperial World Order
  • Which Speeches Matter? Reflections on the Invention of Development
  • II Measuring Development (ed. Corinna R. Unger and Jack Loveridge)
  • The Historiography of Measuring Development
  • Numbers in Space: Measuring Living Standards and Regional Inequality in the Soviet Union
  • Profitability Through Quantification: The World Bank and Rural Development in the 1970s
  • Was the Large Dam a “Modern Temple”? Taking Stock of India’s Development Tryst with the Bhakra-Nangal
  • III Forum: Alternative Development Indices (ed. Iris Borowy and Corinna R. Unger)
  • A Note on the Historical Origins of ISEW-GPI
  • The Origins of the National Welfare Index (NWI)
  • GNH-Led Development in Bhutan
  • The Happy Planet Index
  • Commentary: The New Epicureans
  • List of contributors

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