The Hungry World

America’s Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia

Nick Cullather

Add to Cart

Product Details

PAPERBACK

$30.00 • £24.95 • €27.00

ISBN 9780674725812

Publication Date: 09/09/2013

x Text

368 pages

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

9 halftones, 1 map in 8p mock insert

World

Related Subjects

Educators: Request an online exam copy »What’s this?

Illustrations
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

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

Racism in America: A Reader, edited by Harvard University Press, with a Foreword by Annette Gordon-Reed, available for free download in PDF, EPUB, and Kindle

Recent News

Lessons from Plants author Beronda Montgomery discussed the evolutionary and adaptive genius of vegetation with Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness on his podcast Getting Curious.
Gabriel Winant, author of The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America, spoke with Dissent about deindustrialization, the care economy, and the living legacies of the industrial workers’ movement.
Tae-Yeoun Keum, author of Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought, explored how philosophy might embrace supposedly manipulative mythmaking for liberal ends in a conversation with BLARB: The Blog of the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Andy Horowitz’s Katrina: A History, 1915–2015 was recently named winner of the Bancroft Prize; Nicole Fleetwood’s Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration and Tom Zoellner’s Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire won National Book Critics Circle Awards in the categories of criticism and nonfiction, respectively.

Black lives matter. Black voices matter. A statement from HUP »

From Our Blog

Jacket: Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound, by Daphne A. Brooks, from Harvard University Press

“Everything I Wanted”: Black Women Listeners and the High Fidelity Culture of Taste-Making

Daphne A. Brooks, author of Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound, praises Hulu’s High Fidelity series, whose main characters are creative, intelligent Black women who are passionate about music and confident in their tastes and opinions. Where are the other shows like it?…