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Highly recommended. -- E. A. Breisach,. CHOICE 20120401

The authors appeal to those who shape development policy to pay closer attention to relevant historical works and theories. While the examples are from natural resource management, social protection, and public health, the appeal has a wider intent. That three of the authors and editors worked on the World Development Report for 2006 published by the World Bank gives the present volume special weight. Like that report, the present volume chooses as a major focus inquiries into the complex processes involved in the development of institutions in widely varying historical contexts. By the nature of their discipline, historians are seen as well attuned to understanding how general ideas, policies, and intentions have been translated throughout time into viable political and economic institutions. Historians can also enlighten development theoreticians on the changing perspectives, techniques, and controversies in their own field. Using both the approaches and the skills of historians will assist in the adjusting of development theories and practices to the multitude of different contexts. The volume's ten chapters and four commentary sections lend substance to the call for action. A highly informative volume. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above -- E. A. Breisach CHOICE 20120401 Highly recommended. -- E. A. Breisach,. CHOICE 20120401

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C. A. Bayly is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, and Fellow of St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge. Vijayendra Rao is Lead Economist in the Development Research Group, World Bank. Simon Szreter is Professor of History and Public Policy, and Fellow of St John's College, University of Cambridge. Michael Woolcock is Senior Social Scientist in the Development Research Group, World Bank.

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