From Development to Dictatorship : : Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era / / Thomas C. Field.
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 important se...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2014] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The United States in the World
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Map of South America, Early 1960s
- Map of Bolivia, Early 1960s
- Introduction: Ideology as Strategy
- 1. Modernization’s Heavy Hand: The Triangular Plan for Bolivia
- 2. Development as Anticommunism: The Targeting of Bolivian Labor
- 3. “Bitter Medicine”: Military Civic Action and the Battle of Irupata
- 4. Development’s Detractors: Miners, House wives, and the Hostage Crisis at Siglo XX
- 5. Seeds of Revolt: The Making of an Antiauthoritarian Front
- 6. Revolutionary Bolivia Puts On a Uniform: The 1964 Bolivian Coup d’État
- Conclusion: Development and Its Discontents
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index