The Hungry World

America’s Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia

Nick Cullather

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$30.00 • £24.95 • €27.00

ISBN 9780674725812

Publication Date: 09/09/2013

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368 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

9 halftones, 1 map in 8p mock insert

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Nick Cullather is Professor of History and International Studies at Indiana University.

Awards & Accolades

Shortlist, 2011 Lionel Gelber Prize, Lionel Gelber Foundation, Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, and Foreign Policy

2011 Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Organization of American Historians

2011 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

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