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<p>Inderjeet Parmar reveals the complex interrelations, shared mindsets, and collaborative efforts of influential public and private organizations in the building of American hegemony. Focusing on the involvement of the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations in U.S. foreign affairs, Parmar traces the transformation of America from an "isolationist" nation into the world's only superpower, all in the name of benevolent stewardship.</p> <p>Parmar begins in the 1920s with the establishment of these foundations and their system of top-down, elitist, scientific giving, which focused more on managing social, political, and economic change than on solving modern society's structural problems. Consulting rare documents and other archival materials, he recounts how the American intellectuals, academics, and policy makers affiliated with these organizations institutionalized such elitism, which then bled into the machinery of U.S. foreign policy and became regarded as the essence of modernity.</p> <p>America hoped to replace Britain in the role of global hegemon and created the necessary political, ideological, military, and institutional capacity to do so, yet far from being objective,
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- Author
- Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching;Ford Foundation;Rockefeller Foundation;Parmar, Inderjeet
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231146296
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Political Science, Social Science
- Rating
- 3.55 / 5 (11 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations and the Rise of American Power: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockfeller Foundati (2012)
- Foundations of the American Century : The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power (2011)
- Foundations of the American Century - The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power (2012) (2012)
- Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations and the Rise of American Power: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockfeller Foundati (2015)
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