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The Political History of American Food Aid : An Uneasy Benevolence.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (593 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780190228880
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Political History of American Food AidDDC classification:
  • 363.860973
LOC classification:
  • HV696.F6.R552 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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