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Author : Mark T. Berger
Release : 2004-03
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 116/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Battle for Asia by : Mark T. Berger
Download or read book The Battle for Asia written by Mark T. Berger. This book was released on 2004-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of the Asian region from 1945 to the present day which delineates the various ideological battles over Asia's development.
Author : Mark T. Berger
Release : 2004
Genre : Asia
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 295/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Battle for Asia by : Mark T. Berger
Download or read book The Battle for Asia written by Mark T. Berger. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of the Asian region from 1945 to the present day which delineates the various ideological battles over Asia's development.
Author : Yangwen Zheng
Release : 2010
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 377/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Cold War in Asia by : Yangwen Zheng
Download or read book The Cold War in Asia written by Yangwen Zheng. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold War stayed cold in Europe but it was hot in Asia. Its legacy lives on in the region. In none of the three dominant historiographical paradigms: orthodox, revisionist and post-revisionist, does Asia, or the rest of the Third World, figure with much significance. What happens to these narratives if we put them to the test in Asia? This volume argues that attention to what has been conventionally considered the periphery is essential to a full understanding of the global Cold War. Foregrounding Asia necessarily leads to a re-assessment of the dominant narratives. This volume also argues for a shift in focus from diplomacy and high politics alone towards research into the culture of the Cold War era and its public diplomacy. "As a whole, the essays contribute to enriching our understanding of what was really happening in an era that is too often understood in the catch-all framework of the Cold War." - Akira Iriye, "Harvard University"
Author : S. C. M. Paine
Release : 2012-08-20
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 697/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 by : S. C. M. Paine
Download or read book The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 written by S. C. M. Paine. This book was released on 2012-08-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War misrepresents their connections and causes.
Author : Nick Cullather
Release : 2011-04-01
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 828/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Hungry World by : Nick Cullather
Download or read book The Hungry World written by Nick Cullather. This book was released on 2011-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food was a critical front in the Cold War battle for Asia. “Where Communism goes, hunger follows” was the slogan of American nation builders who fanned out into the countryside to divert rivers, remodel villages, and introduce tractors, chemicals, and genes to multiply the crops consumed by millions. This “green revolution” has been credited with averting Malthusian famines, saving billions of lives, and jump-starting Asia’s economic revival. Bono and Bill Gates hail it as a model for revitalizing Africa’s economy. But this tale of science triumphant conceals a half century of political struggle from the Afghan highlands to the rice paddies of the Mekong Delta, a campaign to transform rural societies by changing the way people eat and grow food. The ambition to lead Asia into an age of plenty grew alongside development theories that targeted hunger as a root cause of war. Scientific agriculture was an instrument for molding peasants into citizens with modern attitudes, loyalties, and reproductive habits. But food policies were as contested then as they are today. While Kennedy and Johnson envisioned Kansas-style agribusiness guarded by strategic hamlets, Indira Gandhi, Marcos, and Suharto inscribed their own visions of progress onto the land. Out of this campaign, the costliest and most sustained effort for development ever undertaken, emerged the struggles for resources and identity that define the region today. As Obama revives the lost arts of Keynesianism and counter-insurgency, the history of these colossal projects reveals bitter and important lessons for today’s missions to feed a hungry world.
