| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.5

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Amy L. S. Staples. The Birth of Development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization Changed the World, 1945–1965. (New Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations.) Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 349. $55.00.

The study of multilateral agencies during the early Cold War period is a fascinating topic that is attracting the attention of historians coming from different subdisciplines. Historical studies on the Cold War have traditionally concentrated on limited military conflicts and the political tension between the Soviet Union and the United States. Only in the past few years have there been investigations on the influence of the Cold War on the arts, other aspects of culture and society, and the everyday lives of American citizens. There is an understudied dimension of the period from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s related to the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union for hegemony over the United Nations and multilateral agencies.

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