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050 4 _aHV696.F6.R552 2017
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100 1 _aRiley, Barry.
245 1 4 _aThe Political History of American Food Aid :
_bAn Uneasy Benevolence.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aOxford :
_bOxford University Press, Incorporated,
_c2017.
264 4 _c©2017.
300 _a1 online resource (593 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 _aCover -- 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.
520 _aThe 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.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aFood relief--United States--History.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aRiley, Barry
_tThe Political History of American Food Aid
_dOxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2017
_z9780190228873
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4980876
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