Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 Modernization Theory and American Modernism -- CHAPTER 2 From the European Past to the American Present -- CHAPTER 3 The Harvard Department of Social Relations and the Intellectual Origins of Modernization Theory -- CHAPTER 4 The Rise of Modernization Theory in Political Science -- CHAPTER 5 Modernization Theory as a Foreign Policy Doctrine -- CHAPTER 6 The Collapse of Modernization Theory -- C H A P T E R 7 The Postmodern Turn and the Aftermath of Modernization Theory -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index.