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Setting Ethiopia's tragedy in the context of the Cold War and two centuries of economic thought, Enlightened Aid is a definitive and revealing requiem for development. --The Journal of American History This broadly-conceived and highly original study makes an important contribution to the growing literature on the pre-Cold War history of developmentalism, whose origins are traced back to the thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment in the eighteenth century. Spanning eight decades of American interventions in Ethiopia, Enlightened Aid provides an often surprising account of a paradigmatic example of American foreign aid, and its underlying hubristic rationales, which have been inexplicably neglected by historians and other social scientists. --Michael Adas, Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History, Rutgers University at New Brunswick Amanda Kay McVety's ambitious book situates American development aid to Ethiopia in the broadest context, shedding light on the evolving meanings of development, on American programs in the early Cold War, and on the emergence of the peculiar developmentalist state of Ethiopia. Ranging from David Hume to Walt Rostow, from Haile Selassie to Jeffrey Sachs, Enlightened Aid is a welcome contribution to histories of development, expanding the geographic and chronological boundaries of the field. --David C. Engerman, Associate Professor of History, Brandeis University Setting Ethiopia's tragedy in the context of the Cold War and two centuries of economic thought, Enlightened Aid is a definitive and revealing requiem for development. --The Journal of American History This broadly-conceived and highly original study makes an important contribution to the growing literature on the pre-Cold War history of developmentalism, whose origins are traced back to the thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment in the eighteenth century. Spanning eight decades of American interventions in Ethiopia, Enlightened Aid provides an often surprising account of a paradigmatic example of American foreign aid, and its underlying hubristic rationales, which have been inexplicably neglected by historians and other social scientists. --Michael Adas, Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History, Rutgers University at New Brunswick Amanda Kay McVety's ambitious book situates American development aid to Ethiopia in the broadest context, shedding light on the evolving meanings of development, on American programs in the early Cold War, and on the emergence of the peculiar developmentalist state of Ethiopia. Ranging from David Hume to Walt Rostow, from Haile Selassie to Jeffrey Sachs, Enlightened Aid is a welcome contribution to histories of development, expanding the geographic and chronological boundaries of the field. --David C. Engerman, Associate Professor of History, Brandeis University

Setting Ethiopia's tragedy in the context of the Cold War and two centuries of economic thought, Enlightened Aid is a definitive and revealing requiem for development. --The Journal of American History This broadly-conceived and highly original study makes an important contribution to the growing literature on the pre-Cold War history of developmentalism, whose origins are traced back to the thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment in the eighteenth century. Spanning eight decades of American interventions in Ethiopia, Enlightened Aid provides an often surprising account of a paradigmatic example of American foreign aid, and its underlying hubristic rationales, which have been inexplicably neglected by historians and other social scientists. --Michael Adas, Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History, Rutgers University at New Brunswick Amanda Kay McVety's ambitious book situates American development aid to Ethiopia in the broadest context, shedding light on the evolving meanings of development, on American programs in the early Cold War, and on the emergence of the peculiar developmentalist state of Ethiopia. Ranging from David Hume to Walt Rostow, from Haile Selassie to Jeffrey Sachs, Enlightened Aid is a welcome contribution to histories of development, expanding the geographic and chronological boundaries of the field. --David C. Engerman, Associate Professor of History, Brandeis University

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Amanda Kay McVety is Assistant Professor of History at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

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