Mechanization and Maize focuses on several international assistance agencies and on two African countries, Kenya and Tanzania. The technologies considered are improved varieties of maize, the primary East African food crop, and small-and large-scale forms of agricultural mechanization. The book investigates how political and technical forces come together, and draws upon the debate on the Green Revolution.

Contrasting industrial development in late-industrializing third world countries with industrial change in advanced industrial societies, Bowie (politics, Catholic U.) shows how the structural characteristics of third world societies affect state policy choices in the industrial realm, and explores

In this seminal study, Robert Cox offers a new approach to the study of power by identifying the connections between production, the state, and world order.