The Political History of American Food Aid : An Uneasy Benevolence.
Riley, Barry.
The Political History of American Food Aid : An Uneasy Benevolence. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (593 pages)
Cover -- The Political History of American Food Aid -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Charts -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Acronyms -- 1. The Early Episodes: 1794-1914 -- 2. Herbert Hoover -- 3. "But Now Came Famine and Pestilence" -- 4. Between the Wars -- 5. Interlude: The American Farmer, 1924-1939 -- 6. The Birth, Short Life, and Early Death of the UNRRA -- 7. Harry Truman, European Hunger, and the Cold War -- 8. The Marshall Plan Era -- 9. Public Law 480 -- 10. The Politics of Food Surpluses -- 11. Kennedy: Food Aid and Economic Development -- 12. Lyndon Johnson's Food Aid Battles -- 13. LBJ, India, and the Short Tether -- 14. The Nixon Years: Two Case Studies -- 15. A Global Food Crisis -- 16. The World Food Conference -- 17. Food Aid Under Carter and Reagan -- 18. The Search for Food Security -- 19. The Ethiopia Conundrum -- 20. From Food Aid to Food Assistance: 1990-2014 -- 21. Change . . . and Resisting Change -- Bibliography -- Index.
The Political History of American Food Aid provides a profound understanding of the complex factors influencing American food aid policy and a foundation for examining its historical relationship with relief, economic development, food security and its possible future in a world confronting the effects of global climate change.
9780190228880
Food relief--United States--History.
Electronic books.
HV696.F6.R552 2017
363.860973
The Political History of American Food Aid : An Uneasy Benevolence. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (593 pages)
Cover -- The Political History of American Food Aid -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Charts -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Acronyms -- 1. The Early Episodes: 1794-1914 -- 2. Herbert Hoover -- 3. "But Now Came Famine and Pestilence" -- 4. Between the Wars -- 5. Interlude: The American Farmer, 1924-1939 -- 6. The Birth, Short Life, and Early Death of the UNRRA -- 7. Harry Truman, European Hunger, and the Cold War -- 8. The Marshall Plan Era -- 9. Public Law 480 -- 10. The Politics of Food Surpluses -- 11. Kennedy: Food Aid and Economic Development -- 12. Lyndon Johnson's Food Aid Battles -- 13. LBJ, India, and the Short Tether -- 14. The Nixon Years: Two Case Studies -- 15. A Global Food Crisis -- 16. The World Food Conference -- 17. Food Aid Under Carter and Reagan -- 18. The Search for Food Security -- 19. The Ethiopia Conundrum -- 20. From Food Aid to Food Assistance: 1990-2014 -- 21. Change . . . and Resisting Change -- Bibliography -- Index.
The Political History of American Food Aid provides a profound understanding of the complex factors influencing American food aid policy and a foundation for examining its historical relationship with relief, economic development, food security and its possible future in a world confronting the effects of global climate change.
9780190228880
Food relief--United States--History.
Electronic books.
HV696.F6.R552 2017
363.860973