The Poverty of the World
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-976591-1 (ISBN)
In The Poverty of the World, Sheyda Jahanbani brings together the histories of US foreign relations and domestic politics to explain why, during a period of unprecedented affluence, Americans rediscovered poverty and supported major policy initiative to combat it. Revisiting a moment of triumph for American liberals in the 1940s, Jahanbani shows how the US's newfound role as a global superpower prompted novel ideas among liberal thinkers about how to address poverty and generated new urgency for trying to do so. Their sense of responsibility about deploying American knowledge and wealth as a beneficent force in the world, produced such foreign aid programs as the Peace Corps. As Americans came to recognize the problem beyond the country's borders, they turned the idea of "underdevelopment" inward to explain poverty in urban neighborhoods and rural communities at home, inspiring Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty and his domestic peace corps, Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA).
Drawing on a wide variety of archival material, Jahanbani reinterprets the lives and work of prominent liberal figures in postwar American social politics, from Oscar Lewis to John Kenneth Galbraith, Michael Harrington to Sargent Shriver, to show the global origins of their ideas. By tracing how American liberals invented the problem of "global poverty" and executed a war against it, The Poverty of the World sheds new light on the domestic impacts of the Cold War, the global ambitions of American liberalism, and the way in which key intellectuals and policymakers worked to develop an alternative vision of US empire in the decades after World War II.
Sheyda F. A. Jahanbani is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Kansas.
Acknowledgments
Introduction "The World's Problem in Miniature": Global Poverty in the American Century
Chapter 1 "This World-Wide Need": John Collier and the Origins of the Global War on Poverty
Chapter 2 "Not Modern Men": Oscar Lewis's Theory of Global Poverty
Chapter 3 "The Only War We Seek": Discovering World Poverty and Building an Empire of Affluence
Chapter 4 "Challenge to Affluence": Promoting Poverty-Fighting as the National Purpose
Chapter 5 "The United States Contains an Underdeveloped Nation": World Poverty Comes Home
Chapter 6 "One Global War on Poverty": Building a Volunteer Army for the Empire of Affluence
Chapter 7 "Living Poor": Representing the Global War on Poverty
Conclusion Neither Peace nor Honor Won: Retreat in the Global War on Poverty
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 09.09.2023 |
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Zusatzinfo | 17 black and white illustrations |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 229 x 279 mm |
Gewicht | 748 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-976591-X / 019976591X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-976591-1 / 9780199765911 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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