Nick Cullather
Biographic Data
| ID | 315623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Cullather |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Cullather |
| SIGNATURE | CULLATHER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Technology in a Transimperial Moment
Development’s Deceits
Craig Robertson. The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information
Journal Article Craig Robertson. The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information. Get access Craig Robertson. The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. Pp. xiii, 313. Paper $27.95. Nick Cullather Nick Cullather Indiana University Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue …
Modernization Comes Back to Town
When Alvin Hansen first used the term “mixed economy” in 1947 to define the ideal outcome of Keynesian reform, economists were unimpressed. Its formula—a full-employment, low-profit economy, neither capitalist nor socialist, led by private enterprise but with the state playing a large and increasing role—seemed both rosy and vague. After all, the Nazi economy had been mixed, and if ordo-liberals were correct, Hansen’s outcome might only be a wayp…
Robert McNamara's Other War: The World Bank and International Development
When Robert McNamara took the helm of the World Bank in 1968 the institution had no mission. Created at Bretton Woods in 1944 to stimulate postwar recovery, the bank was eclipsed first by the Marshall Plan (1948) and later by the development initiatives of the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson eras. Development itself was in crisis, its theories and constituencies exhausted by a decade of failure and conflict. The World Bank was a discredited…
Thomas S. Mullaney, The Chinese Typewriter: A History
The instruction booklet for the Royal #10, the machine Rosalind Russell favored in His Girl Friday, begins by noting that the operations of a typewriter are so well known that no instructions are necessary. By the early years of the twentieth century, the interface between the fingers and the QWERTY keyboard were part of the muscle memory of modernity, and not just in the English-speaking world. The keyboard and carriage design, adaptable to Arab…
Vietnam and its Television Histories
When The Vietnam War premiered on PBS in September 2017 it heralded, as with all Ken Burns, Lynn Novick productions, a moment of national reflection on the past. Ten years in the making, it was designed in its scale (ten episodes, eighteen hours), its soundtrack rich with Big Chill-generation standards, and its production values to resonate with as wide an audience as possible and to stand as a monument of the documentarian's art. Viewers could o…
Inside the Palace: The Rise and Fall of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos
Stretching the Surface of the Earth”: The Foundations, Neo-Malthusianism and the Modernising Agenda
Historians have identified the Ford and Rockefeller foundations as authors of a neo-Malthusian agenda that undermined humanitarian discourse and crippled the response to famine. But foundation officials saw their own position as anti-Malthusian. While they funded population control, they rejected “ecological hucksters” who warned of constraints on either growth or science. This article attempts to show how foundations rationalised their policies …
Enlightened Aid: U.S. Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia
The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia
The Third Race
Journal Article The Third Race Get access Nick Cullather Nick Cullather Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 33, Issue 3, June 2009, Pages 507–512, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2009.00783.x Published: 21 April 2009
Hunger and Containment: How India Became “Important” in US Cold War Strategy
The Foreign Policy of the Calorie
before recalling that a calorie is a measure of the energy content of food, an amount sufficient to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water one degree. One might try the same experiment with other numerical yardsticks used to gauge individual or social well-being-GNP, T-cell counts, or crime rates-and find a similar cultural lost-wax process: the soft material of objective measurement falls away, leaving a subjective impression on the thin…
Here's the Beef: Religion, Culture, and Ngo Dinh Diem
Journal Article Here's the Beef: Religion, Culture, and Ngo Dinh Diem Get access Jacobs Seth. America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. x + 351 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $79.95 (hardcover), $22.95 (paper). Nick Cullather Nick Cullather Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic …
The Target Is the People: Representations of the Village in Modernization and U.s. National Security Doctrine
In the 1950s and 1960s, the term village served as a cardinal construct in modernization theory and counterinsurgency doctrine, signifying local resistance to the global power of the United States. Nation builders devised two strategies – community development and strategic hamlets – that reveal the attitudes and characteristics they ascribed to the village and its conceptual opposite, the city. The key innovations came from Albert Mayer, a New Y…
Back to the Stone Age: Origins of a Cliche
Just after 9/11, the United States allegedly threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the stone age" unless it joined the war on terror. In his new book, Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf attributes the ultimatum to Richard Armitage, who flatly denies it. Sounding slightly less sure, President Bush says he was "taken aback by the harshness of the words
Miracles of Modernization: The Green Revolution and the Apotheosis of Technology
Journal Article Miracles of Modernization: The Green Revolution and the Apotheosis of Technology Get access Nick Cullather Nick Cullather Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 28, Issue 2, April 2004, Pages 227–254, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2004.00407.x Published: 25 March 2004
Damming Afghanistan: Modernization in a Buffer State
In May 1960, the historian Arnold J. Toynbee left Kandahar and drove ninety miles on freshly paved roads to Lashkar Gah, a modern planned city known locally as the New York of Afghanistan. At the confluence of the Helmand and Arghandab rivers, close against the ancient ruins of Qala Bist, Lashkar Gah's eight thousand residents lived in suburban-style tract homes surrounded by broad lawns. The city boasted an alabaster mosque, one of the country's…
Creating the Secret State: The Origins of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1943-1947
Aside from the post office, the only federal department that has a fable of origin is the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The company's Ben Franklin was William J. Donovan, who spoke prophetically in the 1930s of a global intelligence service warning America of approaching dangers. The attack on Pearl Harbor was Donovan's vindication, and for four audacious years his vision of one big spy ag ency was put into action as the Office of Strategic …
Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954
Can't Buy Me Love
If each era has a mood, the mood of ours is irony. John Higham, who has neuroscanned the American consensus for a half century, notes a “widespread indifference, somewhat flecked with disgust” that “excludes and denigrates the public sphere.”1 Seinfeldian cynicism is everywhere, and it poisons American thought and politics, according to the anti-irony league. It demeans idealism and “makes us feel naive for caring about our fellow human beings an…
Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954
Journal Article Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952–1954. By Nick Cullather. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xl, 142 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-8047-3310-4. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8047-3311-2.) Get access Lars Schoultz Lars Schoultz University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 8…
Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations at the End of the Century
Journal Article Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations at the End of the Century. By Bruce Cumings. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. vi, 280 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-8223-2276-5.) Get access Nick Cullather Nick Cullather Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 315–316, https://doi.org/…
Development? It's History
I tap the command s=economic development into the library catalog and the computer produces five thousand records, the maximum, under alphabetical subheadings that reach only partway through the letter E. The remainder of the titles - there must be at least another twenty thousand - cannot be retrieved by any commands I know. For social scientists in the 1950s, according to John Kenneth Galbraith, "no economic subject more quickly captured the at…
Development? It's History
I tap the command s=economic development into the library catalog and the computer produces five thousand records, the maximum, under alphabetical subheadings that reach only partway through the letter E. The remainder of the titles - there must be at least another twenty thousand - cannot be retrieved by any commands I know. For social scientists in the 1950s, according to John Kenneth Galbraith, "no economic subject more quickly captured the at…
Damming Afghanistan: Modernization in a Buffer State
In May 1960, the historian Arnold J. Toynbee left Kandahar and drove ninety miles on freshly paved roads to Lashkar Gah, a modern planned city known locally as the New York of Afghanistan. At the confluence of the Helmand and Arghandab rivers, close against the ancient ruins of Qala Bist, Lashkar Gah's eight thousand residents lived in suburban-style tract homes surrounded by broad lawns. The city boasted an alabaster mosque, one of the country's…
The Target Is the People: Representations of the Village in Modernization and U.s. National Security Doctrine
In the 1950s and 1960s, the term village served as a cardinal construct in modernization theory and counterinsurgency doctrine, signifying local resistance to the global power of the United States. Nation builders devised two strategies – community development and strategic hamlets – that reveal the attitudes and characteristics they ascribed to the village and its conceptual opposite, the city. The key innovations came from Albert Mayer, a New Y…
Stretching the Surface of the Earth”: The Foundations, Neo-Malthusianism and the Modernising Agenda
Historians have identified the Ford and Rockefeller foundations as authors of a neo-Malthusian agenda that undermined humanitarian discourse and crippled the response to famine. But foundation officials saw their own position as anti-Malthusian. While they funded population control, they rejected “ecological hucksters” who warned of constraints on either growth or science. This article attempts to show how foundations rationalised their policies …
America's Boy? Ramon Magsaysay and the Illusion of Influence
Research Article| August 01 1993 America's Boy? Ramon Magsaysay and the Illusion of Influence Nick Cullather Nick Cullather Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1993) 62 (3): 305–338. https://doi.org/10.2307/3640933 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permi…
Enlightened Aid: U.S. Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia
Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations at the End of the Century
Journal Article Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations at the End of the Century. By Bruce Cumings. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. vi, 280 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-8223-2276-5.) Get access Nick Cullather Nick Cullather Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 315–316, https://doi.org/…
Robert McNamara's Other War: The World Bank and International Development
When Robert McNamara took the helm of the World Bank in 1968 the institution had no mission. Created at Bretton Woods in 1944 to stimulate postwar recovery, the bank was eclipsed first by the Marshall Plan (1948) and later by the development initiatives of the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson eras. Development itself was in crisis, its theories and constituencies exhausted by a decade of failure and conflict. The World Bank was a discredited…
The Limits of Multilateralism: Making Policy for the Philippines, 1945–1950
(1991). The Limits of Multilateralism: Making Policy for the Philippines, 1945–1950. The International History Review: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 70-95
The Limits of Multilateralism: Making Policy for the Philippines, 1945–1950
(1991). The Limits of Multilateralism: Making Policy for the Philippines, 1945–1950. The International History Review: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 70-95
America's Boy? Ramon Magsaysay and the Illusion of Influence
Research Article| August 01 1993 America's Boy? Ramon Magsaysay and the Illusion of Influence Nick Cullather Nick Cullather Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1993) 62 (3): 305–338. https://doi.org/10.2307/3640933 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permi…
Behind the Throne: Servants of Power to Imperial Presidents, 1898-1968
Journal Article Behind the Throne: Servants of Power to Imperial Presidents, 1898–1968. Ed. by Thomas J. McCormick and Walter LaFeber. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. xiv, 271 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-299-13740-6.) Get access Nick Cullathcr Nick Cullathcr Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Pages 1767…
Illusions of Influence: The Political Economy of United States-Philippines Relations, 1942-1960
"Fuel for the Good Dragon": The United States and Industrial Policy in Taiwan, 1950?1965
Journal Article "Fuel for the Good Dragon": The United States and Industrial Policy in Taiwan, 1950–1965 Get access Nick Cullather Nick Cullather Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 20, Issue 1, January 1996, Pages 1–26, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.1996.tb00250.x Published: 01 June 2007
Bombshell: The Secret Story of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy
Journal Article Bombshell: The Secret Story of Americas Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy. By Joseph Albright and Marcia Kunstel. New York: Times, A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century. By Jeffrey T. Richelson. New York: Oxford University Press and Secrets: The CIA's War at Home. By Angus Mackenzie. Berkeley: University of California Press Get access Nick Cullather Nick Cullather Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for…
Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954
Can't Buy Me Love
If each era has a mood, the mood of ours is irony. John Higham, who has neuroscanned the American consensus for a half century, notes a “widespread indifference, somewhat flecked with disgust” that “excludes and denigrates the public sphere.”1 Seinfeldian cynicism is everywhere, and it poisons American thought and politics, according to the anti-irony league. It demeans idealism and “makes us feel naive for caring about our fellow human beings an…
Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954
Journal Article Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952–1954. By Nick Cullather. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xl, 142 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-8047-3310-4. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8047-3311-2.) Get access Lars Schoultz Lars Schoultz University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 8…
Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations at the End of the Century
Journal Article Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations at the End of the Century. By Bruce Cumings. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. vi, 280 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-8223-2276-5.) Get access Nick Cullather Nick Cullather Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 315–316, https://doi.org/…
Development? It's History
I tap the command s=economic development into the library catalog and the computer produces five thousand records, the maximum, under alphabetical subheadings that reach only partway through the letter E. The remainder of the titles - there must be at least another twenty thousand - cannot be retrieved by any commands I know. For social scientists in the 1950s, according to John Kenneth Galbraith, "no economic subject more quickly captured the at…
Creating the Secret State: The Origins of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1943-1947
Aside from the post office, the only federal department that has a fable of origin is the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The company's Ben Franklin was William J. Donovan, who spoke prophetically in the 1930s of a global intelligence service warning America of approaching dangers. The attack on Pearl Harbor was Donovan's vindication, and for four audacious years his vision of one big spy ag ency was put into action as the Office of Strategic …
Damming Afghanistan: Modernization in a Buffer State
In May 1960, the historian Arnold J. Toynbee left Kandahar and drove ninety miles on freshly paved roads to Lashkar Gah, a modern planned city known locally as the New York of Afghanistan. At the confluence of the Helmand and Arghandab rivers, close against the ancient ruins of Qala Bist, Lashkar Gah's eight thousand residents lived in suburban-style tract homes surrounded by broad lawns. The city boasted an alabaster mosque, one of the country's…
Miracles of Modernization: The Green Revolution and the Apotheosis of Technology
Journal Article Miracles of Modernization: The Green Revolution and the Apotheosis of Technology Get access Nick Cullather Nick Cullather Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 28, Issue 2, April 2004, Pages 227–254, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2004.00407.x Published: 25 March 2004
Here's the Beef: Religion, Culture, and Ngo Dinh Diem
Journal Article Here's the Beef: Religion, Culture, and Ngo Dinh Diem Get access Jacobs Seth. America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. x + 351 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $79.95 (hardcover), $22.95 (paper). Nick Cullather Nick Cullather Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic …
The Target Is the People: Representations of the Village in Modernization and U.s. National Security Doctrine
In the 1950s and 1960s, the term village served as a cardinal construct in modernization theory and counterinsurgency doctrine, signifying local resistance to the global power of the United States. Nation builders devised two strategies – community development and strategic hamlets – that reveal the attitudes and characteristics they ascribed to the village and its conceptual opposite, the city. The key innovations came from Albert Mayer, a New Y…
Back to the Stone Age: Origins of a Cliche
Just after 9/11, the United States allegedly threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the stone age" unless it joined the war on terror. In his new book, Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf attributes the ultimatum to Richard Armitage, who flatly denies it. Sounding slightly less sure, President Bush says he was "taken aback by the harshness of the words
Hunger and Containment: How India Became “Important” in US Cold War Strategy
The Foreign Policy of the Calorie
before recalling that a calorie is a measure of the energy content of food, an amount sufficient to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water one degree. One might try the same experiment with other numerical yardsticks used to gauge individual or social well-being-GNP, T-cell counts, or crime rates-and find a similar cultural lost-wax process: the soft material of objective measurement falls away, leaving a subjective impression on the thin…
The Third Race
Journal Article The Third Race Get access Nick Cullather Nick Cullather Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 33, Issue 3, June 2009, Pages 507–512, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2009.00783.x Published: 21 April 2009
The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia
Enlightened Aid: U.S. Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia
Stretching the Surface of the Earth”: The Foundations, Neo-Malthusianism and the Modernising Agenda
Historians have identified the Ford and Rockefeller foundations as authors of a neo-Malthusian agenda that undermined humanitarian discourse and crippled the response to famine. But foundation officials saw their own position as anti-Malthusian. While they funded population control, they rejected “ecological hucksters” who warned of constraints on either growth or science. This article attempts to show how foundations rationalised their policies …
Inside the Palace: The Rise and Fall of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos
Vietnam and its Television Histories
When The Vietnam War premiered on PBS in September 2017 it heralded, as with all Ken Burns, Lynn Novick productions, a moment of national reflection on the past. Ten years in the making, it was designed in its scale (ten episodes, eighteen hours), its soundtrack rich with Big Chill-generation standards, and its production values to resonate with as wide an audience as possible and to stand as a monument of the documentarian's art. Viewers could o…
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