African miracle, African mirage : transnational politics and the paradox of modernization in Ivory Coast /

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Author / Creator:	Bamba, Abou B., 1972- author.
Imprint:	Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	New African histories New African histories series.
Subject:	Economic development -- Côte d'Ivoire. Economic development. Economic history. International economic relations. Côte d'Ivoire -- Foreign economic relations -- United States. Côte d'Ivoire -- Foreign economic relations -- France. United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Côte d'Ivoire. France -- Foreign economic relations -- Côte d'Ivoire. Côte d'Ivoire -- Economic conditions -- 20th century. Côte d'Ivoire -- History -- 20th century. Côte d'Ivoire. France. United States. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11271114

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ISBN:	9780821445822 0821445820 9780821422380 0821422383 9780821422397 0821422391
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-290) and index.
Summary:	Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Ivory Coast was touted as an African miracle, a poster child for modernization and the ways that Western aid and multinational corporations would develop the continent.
Other form:	Print version: 9780821422380 0821422383

Table of Contents:

Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Selected Abbreviations; Introduction; Part 1 The Postwar Years; 1-Becoming an Attractive Colony; 2-Triangulating Colonial Modernization; Part 2 The Decade of Development; 3-(Re)Framing Postcolonial Development; 4- Energizing the Economic Miracle; 5- Tapping the Riches of a ""Backward"" Region; Part 3 The Fate of Modernization; 6- Investing in Modernization's Last Frontier; 7- Crushing Dreams of Modernity; Conclusion: A Return to the Saga of an African Miracle; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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