Introduction: the American answer -- Improving nations -- A global economy -- Strategic Ethiopia -- Truman's Fourth Point -- The Ethiopian experiment -- The development decade -- Rethinking the American answer

Introduction -- Part One: The postwar years -- Becoming an attractive colony -- Triangulating colonial modernization -- Part Two: The decade of development -- (Re)framing postcolonial development -- Energizing the economic miracle -- Tapping the riches of a "backward" region -- Part Three: The...