Secular Missionaries: Americans and African Development in the 1960s

by Larry Grubbs

In 1961, as President John F. Kennedy proclaimed the beginning of a "Decade of Development," the United States embarked on its first coherent "Africa" policy. Guided by the precepts of modernization theory, American policymakers, diplomats, academics, and Peace Corps volunteers were dispatched to promote economic growth and nation-building among the newly independent countries of sub-Saharan Africa. At the outset, Larry Grubbs shows, many...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155849734X
• ISBN13: 9781558497344
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.9"