Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey
(Part of the Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures Series)
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The early decades of the Cold War presented seemingly boundless opportunity for the construction of "laboratories" of American society abroad: microcosms where experts could scale down problems of geopolitics to manageable size, and where locals could be systematically directed toward American visions of capitalist modernity. Among the most critical tools in the U.S.'s ideological arsenal was modernization theory, and Turkey emerged as a vital...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:150360554X
ISBN13:9781503605541
Release Date:April 2018
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Length:304 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.6" x 8.4"
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