Apostles of Development: Six Economists and the World They Made

Apostles of Development offers a bold new history of one of the most important enterprises of the 20th century--the project to end global poverty--through the lives and work of six of its most innovative practitioners, all former classmates at Cambridge University and all from the Global South. Deftly combining global history and biography, it shows how development began not in Washington or London or Paris but in the crowded cities and isolated villages of South Asia, home to some of the world's poorest countries in the mid-twentieth century. Sweeping in scope, Apostles of Development details how these six individuals shaped the entire project of international development across the Cold War and post-Cold War eras.

David C. Engerman is Leitner International Interdisciplinary Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University. He is the author of The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in India, Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts (OUP, 2009), and Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development and the editor or coeditor of multiple collections, including a volume of the Cambridge History of America and the World. Engerman served as elected president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 2016.