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An African History of Development - The Idea of Development in Africa: A History Corrie Decker and Elisabeth McMahon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 333. £74.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9781107103696); £23.99, paperback (ISBN: 9781107503229); £23.99, ebook (ISBN: 9781316217344).

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The Idea of Development in Africa: A History Corrie Decker and Elisabeth McMahon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 333. £74.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9781107103696); £23.99, paperback (ISBN: 9781107503229); £23.99, ebook (ISBN: 9781316217344).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2024

Joseph Morgan Hodge*
Affiliation:
West Virginia University

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1 For recent overviews see, Hodge, Joseph M., “Writing the History of Development (Part 1: The First Wave),” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 6, no. 3 (2015): 429–63CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Hodge, Joseph M., “Writing the History of Development (Part 2: Longer, Wider, Deeper),” Humanity 7, no. 1 (2016): 125–74CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Macekura, Stephen and Manela, Erez, eds., The Development Century: A Global History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Unger, Corinna R., International Development: A Postwar History (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)Google Scholar; Lorenzini, Sara, Global Development: A Cold War History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019)Google Scholar; Robertson, Thomas B. and Smith, Jenny Leigh, eds., Transplanting Modernity? The Environmental Legacies of International Development (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023)Google Scholar.

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3 Kothari, Uma, “An Agenda for thinking about race in development,” Progress in Development Studies 6, no. 1 (2006): 9–23CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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