| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 562 pages) |
| Contents |
The Early Episodes: 1794-1914 -- Herbert Hoover -- "But Now Came Famine and Pestilence" -- Between the Wars -- Interlude: The American Farmer, 1924-1939 -- The Birth, Short Life, and Early Death of the UNRRA -- Harry Truman, European Hunger, and the Cold War -- The Marshall Plan Era -- Public Law 480 -- The Politics of Food Surpluses -- Kennedy: Food Aid and Economic Development -- Lyndon Johnson's Food Aid Battles -- LBJ, India, and the Short Tether -- The Nixon Years: Two Case Studies -- A Global Food Crisis -- The World Food Conference -- Food Aid Under Carter and Reagan -- The Search for Food Security -- The Ethiopia Conundrum -- From Food Aid to Food Assistance: 1990-2014 -- Change ... and Resisting Change |
| Summary |
The Political History of American Food Aid provides a profound understanding of the complex factors influencing American food aid policy and a foundation for examining its historical relationship with relief, economic development, food security and its possible future in a world confronting the effects of global climate change |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Food relief -- United States -- History
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Food relief, American -- History
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Politics, Practical.
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Food Assistance -- history
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Politics
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International Cooperation -- history
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History, 20th Century
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History, 21st Century
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politics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Politics, Practical
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Food relief
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Food relief, American
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410
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United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190228903 |
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0190228903 |
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9780190228880 |
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0190228881 |
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