{"product_id":"the-poverty-of-the-world-9780199765911","title":"The Poverty of the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the middle of the twentieth century, liberal intellectuals and policymakers in the United States came to see poverty as a global problem. Applying Progressive era and Depression insights about the causes of poverty to the post-World War II challenges posed by the Cold War and decolonization, they developed new ideas about why poverty persisted. The problem, they argued, was that the poor at home and abroad were alienated from the enormous opportunities industrial capitalism provided. Left unsolved, that problem, they believed, would threaten world peace. In The Poverty of the World, Sheyda Jahanbani brings together the histories of US foreign relations and domestic politics to explain why, during a period of unprecedented affluence, Americans rediscovered poverty and supported major policy initiative to combat it. Revisiting a moment of triumph for American liberals in the 1940s, Jahanbani shows how the US''s newfound role as a global superpower prompted novel ideas among liberal th\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments   Introduction \"The World's Problem in Miniature\": Global Poverty in the American Century   Chapter 1  \"This World-Wide Need\": John Collier and the Origins of the Global War on Poverty    Chapter 2   \"Not Modern Men\": Oscar Lewis's Theory of Global Poverty       Chapter 3   \"The Only War We Seek\": Discovering World Poverty and Building an Empire of Affluence        Chapter 4   \"Challenge to Affluence\": Promoting Poverty-Fighting as the National Purpose   Chapter 5   \"The United States Contains an Underdeveloped Nation\": World Poverty Comes Home  Chapter 6   \"One Global War on Poverty\": Building a Volunteer Army for the Empire of Affluence   Chapter 7   \"Living Poor\": Representing the Global War on Poverty     Conclusion  Neither Peace nor Honor Won: Retreat in the Global War on Poverty             Notes             Selected Bibliography  Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48883865944407,"sku":"9780199765911","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780199765911.jpg?v=1722529366","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-poverty-of-the-world-9780199765911","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}