The Routledge Handbook on the History of Development

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the history of development ideas, themes, and actors in the twentieth century, highlighting blind spots, future research avenues, and a greater diversity of regions, actors, and approaches than other publications. It demonstrates how historical experiences have shaped contemporary understandings of development and emphasizes the contingent nature of the concept. The book explores similarities and differences in development challenges across time and space, and how different actors have responded to these challenges. It is ideal for advanced students and researchers in international development history.

Format: Hardback
Length: 376 pages
Publication date: 23 June 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive and ambitious handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the history of development ideas, themes, and actors in the twentieth century. It takes stock of the field, identifies blind spots, and offers avenues for future research. Moreover, it brings together a greater diversity of regions, actors, and approaches than other publications on the subject.

The book offers a critical reassessment of how historical experiences have shaped contemporary understandings of development. It demonstrates that the concept of development has been contingent on a combination of material conditions, power structures, and policy choices at different times and in different places.

Using a world history approach, the handbook highlights similarities in development challenges across time and space. It also pays attention to the meanings of ideological, cultural, and economic divides in shaping different understandings and practices of development.

The book takes a thematic approach, showing how different actors, including governments, non-governmental organizations, individuals, corporations, and international organizations, have responded to concerns regarding education, health, food, infrastructure development, industrialization, social conditions, population policies, migration, and stability and security.

Bringing together a range of voices from across the globe, this book is an invaluable resource for advanced students and researchers of international development history.

Weight: 870g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367366001