Amanda Kay Mcvety
Biographic Data
| ID | 1480952 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Kay Mcvety |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda Kay |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcvety |
| SIGNATURE | MCVETY A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Miami University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Diplomacy of Disasters
Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance
As I write this review in late 2022, the World Food Programme warns on its home page that 345 million people in eighty-two countries “are facing acute food insecurity” (https://www.wfp.org/emergencies/global-food-crisis). Averting catastrophe, the organization insists, requires rising “to the challenge of meeting people's immediate food needs, while at the same time supporting programmes that build long-term resilience.” The crisis has multiple o…
A mir A. A fkhami . A Modern Contagion: Imperialism and Public Health in Iran’s Age of Cholera
A Modern Contagion: Imperialism and Public Health in Iran’s Age of Cholera places cholera (and also bubonic plague) into modern Iranian medical and political history, persuasively arguing that pandemic disease was a powerful driver for change across multiple fields. Cholera, Amir A. Afkhami writes, “not only shaped the adoption of new paradigms in medicine and health; it also changed Iranian perspectives on governance, influenced European imperia…
He Was Our Conscience”
In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics challenges its readers to reconsider the history of U.S. foreign policy to Africa during the 1980s. Most of those readers, author Benjamin Talton acknowledges, will not recognize the name Mickey Leland. That forgetfulness, Talton insists, is a problem on several levels. First, Leland—“Congress’s champion for U.S. humanitarianism in Africa during the final decade of the Cold War…
Kaunda’s Diplomacy
In April 1975, following a black-tie dinner at the White House, Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda boldly confronted U.S. President Gerald Ford’s administration about its “lack” of a clear policy for southern Africa. Continued inaction about apartheid in South Africa, white rule in Rhodesia, and South African control over Namibia, he charged, provided “psychological comfort to the sources of evil.” Recalling the actions of G. Mennen Williams, John …
J ohn V. C lune . The Abongo Abroad: Military-Sponsored Travel in Ghana, the United States, and the World, 1959–1992
The heart of John V. Clune’s The Abongo Abroad: Military-Sponsored Travel in Ghana, the United States, and the World, 1959–1992, begins at a RAND conference in California in 1959 where prominent social scientists gathered to discuss the question of “the role of the military in ‘underdeveloped’ countries” (24). They had a lot to say, most of it revolving around how the U.S. government could use military assistance “to create modernized people” (29…
The Political History of American Food Aid: An Uneasy Benevolence
The Political History of American Food Aid: An Uneasy Benevolence." Global Food History, 4(2), pp. 247–248
Enlightened Aid: US Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia
Bob H. Reinhardt. The End of a Global Pox: America and the Eradication of Smallpox in the Cold War Era
The End of a Global Pox: America and the Eradication of Smallpox in the Cold War Era begins, unexpectedly, with a 2001 role-playing game that brought together key participants from the fields of politics, medicine, and the military to consider the alleged reemergence of smallpox in Oklahoma. The exercise, known as Operation Dark Winter, “revealed a tragic irony: that the global eradication program itself had created a world in which smallpox seem…
America's Twentieth-Century Frontier
Jennifer Van Vleck’s important book, Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy, links the rise of American power in the twentieth century with the rise of aviation in both its commercial and military forms. More than just a question of fortuitous timing, she insists, they were intimately connected. The airplane changed the possibilities of national power—what forms it could take, how it could be expressed, how it could be challenged…
Enlightened Aid: U.S. Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia
In his 1949 inaugural address, Harry Truman vowed to make the development of the underdeveloped world a central part of America’s national security agenda. This commitment became policy the following year with the creation of Point Four—the first U.S. aid program to the developing world. Point Four technicians taught classes on public health and irrigation, distributed chickens and vaccines, and helped build schools and water treatment facilities…
Pursuing Progress: Point Four in Ethiopia
Journal Article Pursuing Progress: Point Four in Ethiopia Get access Amanda Kay Mcvety Amanda Kay Mcvety Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 32, Issue 3, June 2008, Pages 371–403, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00698.x Published: 08 May 2008
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Pursuing Progress: Point Four in Ethiopia
Journal Article Pursuing Progress: Point Four in Ethiopia Get access Amanda Kay Mcvety Amanda Kay Mcvety Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 32, Issue 3, June 2008, Pages 371–403, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00698.x Published: 08 May 2008
Enlightened Aid: U.S. Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia
In his 1949 inaugural address, Harry Truman vowed to make the development of the underdeveloped world a central part of America’s national security agenda. This commitment became policy the following year with the creation of Point Four—the first U.S. aid program to the developing world. Point Four technicians taught classes on public health and irrigation, distributed chickens and vaccines, and helped build schools and water treatment facilities…
America's Twentieth-Century Frontier
Jennifer Van Vleck’s important book, Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy, links the rise of American power in the twentieth century with the rise of aviation in both its commercial and military forms. More than just a question of fortuitous timing, she insists, they were intimately connected. The airplane changed the possibilities of national power—what forms it could take, how it could be expressed, how it could be challenged…
Bob H. Reinhardt. The End of a Global Pox: America and the Eradication of Smallpox in the Cold War Era
The End of a Global Pox: America and the Eradication of Smallpox in the Cold War Era begins, unexpectedly, with a 2001 role-playing game that brought together key participants from the fields of politics, medicine, and the military to consider the alleged reemergence of smallpox in Oklahoma. The exercise, known as Operation Dark Winter, “revealed a tragic irony: that the global eradication program itself had created a world in which smallpox seem…
Enlightened Aid: US Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia
The Political History of American Food Aid: An Uneasy Benevolence
The Political History of American Food Aid: An Uneasy Benevolence." Global Food History, 4(2), pp. 247–248
Kaunda’s Diplomacy
In April 1975, following a black-tie dinner at the White House, Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda boldly confronted U.S. President Gerald Ford’s administration about its “lack” of a clear policy for southern Africa. Continued inaction about apartheid in South Africa, white rule in Rhodesia, and South African control over Namibia, he charged, provided “psychological comfort to the sources of evil.” Recalling the actions of G. Mennen Williams, John …
J ohn V. C lune . The Abongo Abroad: Military-Sponsored Travel in Ghana, the United States, and the World, 1959–1992
The heart of John V. Clune’s The Abongo Abroad: Military-Sponsored Travel in Ghana, the United States, and the World, 1959–1992, begins at a RAND conference in California in 1959 where prominent social scientists gathered to discuss the question of “the role of the military in ‘underdeveloped’ countries” (24). They had a lot to say, most of it revolving around how the U.S. government could use military assistance “to create modernized people” (29…
He Was Our Conscience”
In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics challenges its readers to reconsider the history of U.S. foreign policy to Africa during the 1980s. Most of those readers, author Benjamin Talton acknowledges, will not recognize the name Mickey Leland. That forgetfulness, Talton insists, is a problem on several levels. First, Leland—“Congress’s champion for U.S. humanitarianism in Africa during the final decade of the Cold War…
A mir A. A fkhami . A Modern Contagion: Imperialism and Public Health in Iran’s Age of Cholera
A Modern Contagion: Imperialism and Public Health in Iran’s Age of Cholera places cholera (and also bubonic plague) into modern Iranian medical and political history, persuasively arguing that pandemic disease was a powerful driver for change across multiple fields. Cholera, Amir A. Afkhami writes, “not only shaped the adoption of new paradigms in medicine and health; it also changed Iranian perspectives on governance, influenced European imperia…
Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance
As I write this review in late 2022, the World Food Programme warns on its home page that 345 million people in eighty-two countries “are facing acute food insecurity” (https://www.wfp.org/emergencies/global-food-crisis). Averting catastrophe, the organization insists, requires rising “to the challenge of meeting people's immediate food needs, while at the same time supporting programmes that build long-term resilience.” The crisis has multiple o…
The Diplomacy of Disasters
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