From development to dictatorship : Bolivia and the alliance for progress in the Kennedy era /

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During the most idealistic years of John F. Kennedy's Alliance for Progress development program, Bolivia was the highest per capita recipient of U.S. foreign aid in Latin America. Nonetheless, Washington's modernization programs in early 1960s Bolivia ended up on a collision course with im...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Field, Thomas C., Jr (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Colección:United States in the world.
Temas:
Alliance for Progress.
Alliance for Progress
USA > Agency for International Development
1952-1982
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Diplomatic relations
Politics and government
Social conditions
Bolivia > Politics and government > 1952-1982.
Bolivia > History > 1952-1982.
Bolivia > Social conditions > 1952-1982.
United States > Foreign relations > Bolivia.
Bolivia > Foreign relations > United States.
Bolivie > Politique et gouvernement > 1952-1982.
Bolivie > Conditions sociales > 1952-1982.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > Bolivie.
Bolivie > Relations extérieures > États-Unis.
Bolivia
United States
Bolivien
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: ideology as strategy
  • Modernization's heavy-hand: the triangular plan for Bolivia
  • Development as anticommunism: the targeting of Bolivian labor
  • "Bitter medicine": military civic action and the battle of Irupata
  • Development's detractors: miners, housewives, and the hostage crisis at Siglo XX
  • Seeds of revolt: the making of an anti-authoritarian front
  • Revolutionary Bolivia puts on a uniform: the 1964 Bolivian coup d'etat
  • Conclusion: development and its discontents
  • Notes
  • Bibliography.

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