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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Autor principal: Field, Thomas C., Jr (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
USA > Agency for International Development
Alliance for Progress.
Social conditions.
Politics and government.
Diplomatic relations.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Bolivien
United States.
Bolivia.
Bolivie > Relations exterieures > États-Unis.
États-Unis > Relations exterieures > Bolivie.
Bolivie > Conditions sociales > 1952-1982.
Bolivie > Politique et gouvernement > 1952-1982.
Bolivia > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Bolivia.
Bolivia > Social conditions > 1952-1982.
Bolivia > History > 1952-1982.
Bolivia > Politics and government > 1952-1982.
History.
Electronic books.
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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