Contents
Foreword. Development and the Environment: A Caricature, a Caution, and a Hope | Daniel Immerwahr
Introduction. Development Landscapes | Thomas B. Robertson and Jenny Leigh Smith
Part I: Development Landscapes and the Circulation of Knowledge
1. The Nature of “Know-How”: American Engineers in Afghanistan’s Helmand Valley | Linda Nash
2. Point 4-H: Transplanting Rural Modernity through the International Farm Youth Exchange | Amrys O. Williams
Part II: Development Before and During World War II
3. “Cattle Culling and All That Stuff”: Modernity, Mobilization, and the Everyday Language of Environmental Change in Northeastern Zimbabwe | Admire Mseba
4. New Frontiers in a Latin American Laboratory: How New Ideas about Interconnection during World War II Spurred Postwar American International Development Programs | Megan Black and Thomas B. Robertson
Part III: State Actors in the Development Era
5. The Spray-Happy Farmer as a Cold War Legacy: West German Development and Pesticide Dependence in South India, 1965–1985 | Siddhartha Krishnan
6. “Better and More Efficient Animals”: Developing Ethiopia’s Cattle in the 1940s and 1950s | Amanda Kay McVety
7. Drowning Capitalism: Soviet Technological Aid and the Technopolitics of Hydropower in Africa during the Cold War | Elena Kochetkova, David Damtar, Polina Sliusarchuk, and Julia Lajus
Part IV: Non-State Actors After the Environmental Turn
8. Integrating Conservation and Development: The World Wildlife Fund and the Participatory Vision for Conservation in the 1980s | Stephen Macekura
9. The Calcutta Urban Development Project: From Slum Clearance to Slum Improvement | Corinna Unger
Conclusion. Toward an Environmental History of Development | Joseph M. Hodge
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index