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by Michael E. Latham; Foreword by John Lewis Gaddis

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Providing new insight on the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the Cold War, Michael Latham reveals how social science theory helped shape American foreign policy during the Kennedy administration. He shows how, in the midst of America's protracted struggle to contain communism in the developing world, the concept of global modernization moved beyond its beginnings in academia to become a motivating ideology behind policy decisions.

After tracing the rise of modernization theory in American social science, Latham analyzes the way its core assumptions influenced the Kennedy administration's Alliance for Progress with Latin America, the creation of the Peace Corps, and the strategic hamlet program in Vietnam. But as he demonstrates, modernizers went beyond insisting on the relevance of America's experience to the dilemmas faced by impoverished countries. Seeking to accelerate the movement of foreign societies toward a liberal, democratic, and capitalist modernity, Kennedy and his advisers also reiterated a much deeper sense of their own nation's vital strengths and essential benevolence. At the height of the Cold War, Latham argues, modernization recast older ideologies of Manifest Destiny and imperialism.

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Explores how the social science concept of global modernization shaped American foreign policy in the Kennedy administration, from such programs as the Peace Corps and Alliance for Progress to an eventual recasting of Manifest Destiny and imperlalism.

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  • Title Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and Nation Building in the Kennedy Era
  • Author Michael E. Latham; Foreword by John Lewis Gaddis
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A
  • Publication date 2000-05-15
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780807848449 / 0807848441
  • Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 5.81 x 0.82 in (23.52 x 14.76 x 2.08 cm)
  • Reading level 1440
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress subjects Nation-building, Developing countries - Economic conditions
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99035517
  • Dewey Decimal Code 327.73

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Michael E. Latham is associate professor of history at Fordham University.

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