Damming Afghanistan: Modernization in a Buffer State, by Nick Cullather

Further Reading

Development and Modernization Theory

Cooper, Frederick, and Randall Packard. International Development and the Social Sciences. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Cowen, M. P., and R. W. Shenton. Doctrines of Development. London: Routledge, 1996.

Curti, Merle, and Kendall Birr, Prelude to Point IV. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1954.

Engerman, David C., Nils Gilman, Mark Haefele, and Michael Latham, eds. Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.

Gilman, Nils. "Paving the World with Good Intentions: The Genesis of Modernization Theory, 1945–1965," Ph.d. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 2001.

Latham, Michael E. Modernization as Ideology. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Scott, James C. Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Simpson, Christopher, ed. Universities and Empire. New York: New Press, 1998.

Dams

Ekbladh, David. "'Mr. TVA': Grass-Roots Development, David Lilienthal, and the Rise of the Tennessee Valley Authority as a Symbol for U.S. Overseas Development, 1933-1973," Diplomatic History, 26 (Summer 2002), 335–74.

Neuse, Steven M. David E. Lilienthal: The Journey of an American Liberal. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996.

Usher, Ann Danaiya, ed. Dams as Aid: A Political Anatomy of Nordic Development Thinking. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Afghanistan

Dupree, Louis. Afghanistan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.

Gladston, Cary, ed. Afghanistan: History, Issues, Bibliography. Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2001.

Gregorian, Vartan. The Emergence of Modern Afghanistan: Politics of Reform and Modernization, 1880–1946. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1969.