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food fights from the author of the
international bestseller
katherine maher
The History of Love
The hungry world: america’s
than 80 percent agrarian population of the trade in Afghanistan, sharecropping in that O�Boyle explores in the forests they might mean to us in a larger psychological
surrounding continent—now posed an exis- Pakistan, and the devastation of water sense. Brief essays by noted historians Curt Miner�
of an untended North America are
tential threat nearly on par with the Soviet tables in the more aggressively developed Kenneth Warren� Kenneth Wolensky� and Thomas
bookmarks of often incomprehensibly
Union. Urgently seeking alternate models of stretches of Indian agriculture. Lewis offer social and historical contexts for the
vast economic processes� they sites documented in the book. These sites include
influence, the Truman administration set- Meanwhile, research today points to a
give shape to an industrial history Eastern State Penitentiary� Bethlehem Steel� and
tled on the Mexican model of development great leveling of hunger and poverty; the
as the basis of a new approach to containing British-based Institute of Development of this continent.� Bannerman�s Island Arsenal� among others. The
the Communist threat in Asia. Studies recently published findings showing book concludes with an interview with the photog-
—from the Introduction
Cullather delves deeply into the details of that only 30 percent of the children most by Geoff Manaugh rapher that touches on his fascination with ruins
early American development strategies, likely to be malnourished are living in the and explores some of his procedures for document-
focusing on both the dubious theories and world’s poorest nations. The remaining ing them. Modern Ruins is a compelling collection
the ideological cheerleading that propelled 70 percent are in middle-income countries, of stunning and melancholy photographs� one that
them. In the Philippines and Vietnam, for as nearly all of the Asian nations covered in helps us hear these abandoned places speak.
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example, Cullather chronicles the introduc- The Hungry World are now categorized. A Keystone Book®
tion of IR-8, a visually distinctive, specially This seems like a failure of measurement:
cultivated Green Revolution rice strain, in a How can nations be said to have “devel-
sobering and revealing exposition of how
scientific research can contort itself in pur-
suit of a favored policy. He provides a sharp
account of the media firestorm over discov-
oped” if hunger remains so widespread?
And how, then, do we quantify progress?
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Katherine Maher is a global-development specialist
eries in 1969 that North Vietnam had initi- who blogs on technology and democracy issues at
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