The Routledge Handbook on the History of Development

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This bold and ambitious handbook is the first systematic overview of the history of development ideas, themes, and actors in the twentieth century. Taking stock of the field, the book reflects on blind spots, points out avenues for future research, and brings together a greater plurality of regions, actors, and approaches than other publications on the subject. The book offers a critical reassessment of how historical experiences have shaped contemporary understandings of development, demonstrating that the seemingly self-evident concept of development has been contingent on a combination of material conditions, power structures, and policy choices at different times and in different places. Using a world history approach, the handbook highlights similarities in development challenges across time and space, and it pays attention to the meanings of ideological, cultural, and economic divides in shaping different understandings and practices of development. Taking a thematic approach, the book shows how different actors - governments, non-governmental organizations, individuals, corporations, and international organizations - have responded to concerns regarding the conditions in their own or other societies, such as the provision of education, health, or food; approaches to infrastructure development and industrialization; the adjustment of social conditions; population policies and migration; and the maintenance of stability and security. Bringing together a range of voices from across the globe, this book will be perfect for advanced students and researchers of international development history. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of illustrations About the contributors Part 1 Introduction Chapter 1 The history of development: A critical overview Part 2 Concepts and ideas of development Chapter 2 Economic growth and the object of development Chapter 3 Socialist approaches to development Chapter 4 Alternative development approaches: Utopias, co-options, transitions Part 3 Themes Part 3A Developing people Chapter 5 Unraveling the health-development nexus Chapter 6 Education, development, and North-South relations in the 20th century Part 3B Developing societies Chapter 7 Inequality Chapter 8 Industrialization Chapter 9 Demographic concerns and interventions: The changing population-development nexus in the 20th century Chapter 10 Multiple faces of migration and development: Nation-building, neoliberalism, and multilateralism Chapter 11 Infrastructure Part 3C Developing the material world Chapter 12 Urban development Chapter 13 Agriculture and food production Chapter 14 Resource governance Part 4 Actors of development Chapter 15 Religion and development: Multiple voices in global context Chapter 16 NGOs and development: Small is beautiful? Chapter 17 International organizations and development Chapter 18 State intervention for development: A historical perspective Chapter 19 Multinational enterprises Part 5 Transversal perspectives Chapter 20 Gender and development Chapter 21 Development knowledge: A twentieth-century perspective Chapter 22 Development and the security paradox: How development was born to grant security but failed to do so Chapter 23 History of development assistance Index