The Hungry World

America’s Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia

Nick Cullather

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$30.00 • £26.95 • €27.95

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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Preface
Introduction
1. The World Food Problem
2. Mexico’s Way Out
3. A Continent of Peasants
4. We Shall Release the Waters
5. A Very Big, Very Poor Country
6. A Parable of Seeds
7. You Can’t Eat Steel
8. The Meaning of Famine
9. The Conquest of Hunger
10. Present at the Re-creation
Abbreviations
Notes
Archives
Index

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2011 Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Organization of American Historians

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

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

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