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Title International development and the social sciences : essays on the history and politics of knowledge / edited by Frederick Cooper and Randall Packard.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 361 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Instruments and idioms of colonial and national development: India's historical experience in comparative perspective / Sugata Bose -- Modernizing bureaucrats, backward Africans, and the development concept / Frederick Cooper -- Visions of postwar health and development and their impact on public health interventions in the developing world / Randall Packard -- Intellectual openings and policy closures : disequilibria in contemporary development economics / Michael R. Carter -- Anthropology and its evil twin : "development" in the constitution of a discipline / James Ferguson -- Population science, private foundations, and development aid : the transformation of demographic knowledge in the United States, 1945-1965 / John Sharpless -- Redefining development at the World Bank / Martha Finnemore -- Development ideas in Latin America : paradigm shift and the economic commission for Latin America / Kathryn Sikkink -- "Found in most traditional societies" : traditional medical practitioners between culture and development / Stacy Leigh Pigg -- Senegalese development : from mass mobilization to technocratic elitism / Mamadou Diouf -- Agrarian populism in the development of a modern nation (India) / Akhil Gupta.
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Subject Economic development -- Research.
Economic development -- Research.
Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Research.
Developing countries.
Economic conditions.
Research.
Social sciences -- Research.
Social sciences -- Research.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Cooper, Frederick, 1947-
Packard, Randall M., 1945-
Other Form: Print version: International development and the social sciences. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997 0520209575 (DLC) 97026697 (OCoLC)37322272
ISBN 9780520919440 (electronic book)
0520919440 (electronic book)
0585280576 (electronic book)
9780585280578 (electronic book)
0520209575 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0520209567 (cloth ; alkaline paper)