History G8914: International Development in History, Spring 2012, Columbia University

Unnamed agricultural laborer and Ford Foundation worker Horace Holmes in Etawah, India, as photographed by Life, 1951

Schedule of readings, assignments, and events

• Frederick Cooper, “Writing the History of Development,” Journal of Modern European History 8 (2010): 5–23.
• Nick Cullather, “Development? It’s History,” Diplomatic History 24 (2000): 641–653
• Beniamin Knutsson, “The Intellectual History of Development: Towards a Widening Potential Repertoire,” Perspectives 13 (2009): 1–47. CourseWorks
• Nick Cullather, The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010)

• Wolfgang Sachs, The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power (1992), introduction.
  
• James Ferguson, The Anti-Politics Machine: “Development,” Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (1994), chaps. 1–2, 9, epilogue
• Arturo Escobar, “The Problematization of Poverty,” in Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (1995). CourseWorks
• Martin Wolf, Why Globalization Works (2004), preface, chapters 5 and 9.

• Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization (1995), introduction, part I
• James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (1998), introduction, chaps. 1, 5–6
• David Ekbladh, The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order (2009), introduction, chaps. 1–3

• Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (1993), chap. 10. CourseWorks
• Gyan Prakash, Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India (1999), chap. 6. CourseWorks
• Timothy Mitchell, Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity (2002), introduction, chaps 1–3, 7–9

• Ha-Joon Chang, “Kicking Away the Ladder: Infant Industry Promotion in Historical Perspective,” Oxford Development Studies 31 (2003): 21–32. CourseWorks
• David C. Engerman, Nils Gilman, Mark H. Haefele, and Michael E. Latham, eds., Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War (2003), chapters by Latham, Adas, Gilman, and Engerman.
• Michael Latham, The Right Kind of Revolution (2011)

• Andre Gunder Frank, “The Development of Underdevelopment,” Monthly Review, September 1966, 17-31. CourseWorks
• Immanuel Wallerstein, “The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 16 (1974): 387–415.
• Cristóbal Kay, “Reflections on the Latin American Contribution to Development Theory,” Development and Change (1991): 31–68.
• Thomas Pogge, “Achieving Democracy,” Ethics & International Affairs 15 (2001): 3-23
• Frederick Cooper, Africa since 1940: The Past of the Present (2002), chaps. 3–5.

• Albert O. Hirschman, “The Rise and Decline of Development Economics,” in Essays on Trespassing: Economics to Politics and Beyond (1981). CourseWorks
• Paul Krugman, “The Fall and Rise of Development Economics,” informal paper, 1994. CourseWorks
• William Easterly, The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (2001)
• By this day, you are expected to have handed in at least one of your two assignments.

• Matthew Connelly, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population (2008)

• Peter Singer, “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 1 (1972): 229–243
• Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (2010)
• Daniel Sargent, “Oasis in the Desert?: America’s Human Rights Rediscovery,” forthcoming. CourseWorks

• John Toye, Dilemmas of Development: Reflections on the Counter-Revolution in Development Economics, 2nd ed (1993), chaps. 2–4. CourseWorks
• Kristian Stokke and Giles Mohan, “The Convergence around Local Civil Society and the Dangers of Localism,” Social Scientist 29 (2001): 3–24
• Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents (2002)

• Patrick Heller, “From Class Struggle to Class Compromise: Redistribution and Growth in a South Indian State,” Journal of Development Studies 31 (1995): 645–672. CourseWorks
• Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (2000)

• Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (1998)
• Peter Evans, “Counter-Hegemonic Globalization: Transnational Social Movements in the Contemporary Global Political Economy,” in Thomas Janoski, Alexander M. Hicks, and Mildred Schwartz, Handbook of Political Sociology (2005). CourseWorks