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050 1 4 _aHV 97
_bP253f 2014
082 0 0 _a327.7300904
100 1 _aParmar, Inderjeet
_930302
245 1 0 _aFoundations of the American century :
_bthe Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the rise of American power /
_cInderjeet Parmar.
260 _aNew York :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c2014.
300 _axv, 356 pages ;
_c23 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
337 _acomputer
_bc
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface to the Paperback Edition --
_tAcknowledgments --
_t1. The Significance of Foundations in U.S. Foreign Policy --
_t2. American Foundation Leaders --
_t3. Laying the Foundations of Globalism, 1930-1945 --
_t4. Promoting Americanism, Combating Anti-Americanism, and Developing a Cold War American Studies Network --
_t5. The Ford Foundation in Indonesia and the Asian Studies Network --
_t6. Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie in Nigeria and the African Studies Network --
_t7. The Major Foundations, Latin American Studies, and Chile in the Cold War --
_t8. American Power and the Major Foundations in the Post-Cold War Era.
520 _aInderjeet Parmar reveals the complex interrelations, shared mindsets, and collaborative efforts of influential public and private organizations in the building of American hegemony. Focusing on the involvement of the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations in U.S. foreign affairs, Parmar traces the transformation of America from an "isolationist" nation into the world's only superpower, all in the name of benevolent stewardship.Parmar begins in the 1920s with the establishment of these foundations and their system of top-down, elitist, scientific giving, which focused more on managing social, political, and economic change than on solving modern society's structural problems. Consulting rare documents and other archival materials, he recounts how the American intellectuals, academics, and policy makers affiliated with these organizations institutionalized such elitism, which then bled into the machinery of U.S. foreign policy and became regarded as the essence of modernity. America hoped to replace Britain in the role of global hegemon and created the necessary political, ideological, military, and institutional capacity to do so, yet far from being objective, the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations often advanced U.S. interests at the expense of other nations. Incorporating case studies of American philanthropy in Nigeria, Chile, and Indonesia, Parmar boldly exposes the knowledge networks underwriting American dominance in the twentieth century.
530 _aIssued also in print.
546 _aEnglish
610 2 0 _aCarnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
_xHistory.
610 2 0 _aFord Foundation
_xHistory.
610 2 0 _aRockefeller Foundation
_xHistory.
610 2 4 _aFundación Carnegie para el Avance de la Enseñanza
_xHistoria
_932732
610 2 4 _aFundación Ford
_xHistoria
_932731
610 2 4 _aFundación Rockefeller
_xHistoria
_932733
650 0 _aInternational relations.
650 4 _aRelaciones internacionales
_9152
651 0 _aUnited States
_xForeign relations
_y20th century.
651 4 _aEstados unidos
_xRelaciones Internacionales
_ySiglo XX
_932347
906 _aBOOK
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_cBK
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