The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia by Nick Cullather

The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia

Nick Cullather

368 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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Food was a critical front in the Cold War battle for Asia. "Where Communism goes, hunger follows" was the slogan of American nation builders who fanned out into the countryside to divert rivers, remodel villages, and introduce tractors, chemicals,...

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