UMass Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press

Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War

Edited by David C. Engerman, Nils Gilman, Mark H. Haefele,
and Michael E. Latham
Foreword by Akira Iriye

Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Foreword
Akira Iriye xi

Introduction:
Modernization, International History, and the Global Cold War World
Michael E. Latham 1

Part I: Developing Modernization

Modernization Theory and the American Revival of the Scientific and Technological Standards of Social Achievement and Human Worth
Michael Adas 25

Modernization Theory, the Highest Stage of American Intellectual History
Nils Gilman 47

Walt Rostow's Stages of Economic Growth: Ideas and Action
Mark H. Haefele 81

Part II: Celebrating Modernization

Selling Capitalism:
Modernization and U.S. Overseas Propaganda, 1945–1959
Laura Belmonte 107

Musicals and Modernization:
Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I
Christina Klein 129

Part III: Contesting Modernization around the World

Estado Novo, Homem Novo (New State, New Man):
Colonial and Anticolonial Development Ideologies in Mozambique, 1930–1977
Michael Mahoney 165

West Meets East:
The Center for International Studies and Indian Economic Development
David C. Engerman 199

Modernization and Democratic Values:
The "Japanese Model" in the 1960s
Victor Koschmann 225

Koreanizing Modernization:
Modernization Theory and South Korean Intellectuals
Gregg Andrew Brazinsky 251

Notes on Contributors 275

Index 277