The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith
The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith
Editor/Author
Rist, Gilbert
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Zed Books
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ISBN: 978-1-78-360022-9
Category: History - World history
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
The History of Development, now in its fourth edition, is a classic development text, which has both defined and changed its field. Gilbert Rist provides a complete and powerful overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history.
Table of Contents
- About the Author
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Introduction
- 1 Definitions of Development
- 2 Metamorphoses of a Western Myth
- 3 The Making of a World System
- 4 The Invention of Development
- 5 The International Doctrine and Institutions Take Root
- 6 Modernization Poised between History and Prophecy
- 7 The Periphery and the Understanding of History
- 8 Self-reliance: The Communal Past as a Model for the Future
- 9 The Triumph of Third-Worldism
- 10 The Environment, or the New Nature of ‘Development’
- 11 A Mixture of Realism and Fine Sentiments
- 12 Globalization as Simulacrum of ‘Development’
- 13 From the Struggle against Poverty to the Millennium Development Goals
- 14 The Great Turnaround?
- 15 Beyond ‘Development’: From Downscaling to a Change in the Economic Paradigm
- Conclusion
- Bibliography