Enlightened Aid: U.S. Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia

By Amanda Kay McVety

Book Overview

Enlightened Aid is a unique history of foreign aid. The book begins with the modern concept of progress in the Scottish Enlightenment, follows the development of this concept in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century economics and anthropology, describes its transformation from a concept into a tool of foreign policy, and ends with the current debate about foreign aid's utility.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190257784
• ISBN13: 9780190257781
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"