The Ends of Modernization : : Nicaragua and the United States in the Cold War Era / / David Johnson Lee.
The Ends of Modernization studies the relations between Nicaragua and the United States in the crucial years during and after the Cold War. David Johnson Lee charts the transformation of the ideals of modernization, national autonomy, and planned development as they gave way to human rights protecti...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The United States in the World
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (270 p.) :; 12 b&w halftones, 3 maps |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Alliance for Progress on the Doubtful Strait -- 2. Decentering Managua -- 3. Dis-integrating Rural Development -- 4. Pluralism, Development, and the Nicaraguan Revolution -- 5. Retracing Imperial Paths on the Mosquito Coast -- 6. Institutionalized Precarity in Postwar Nicaragua -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | The Ends of Modernization studies the relations between Nicaragua and the United States in the crucial years during and after the Cold War. David Johnson Lee charts the transformation of the ideals of modernization, national autonomy, and planned development as they gave way to human rights protection, neoliberalism, and sustainability. Using archival material, newspapers, literature, and interviews of historical actors in countries across Latin America, the United States, and Europe, Lee demonstrates how conflict between the United States and Nicaragua shaped larger international development policy and transformed the Cold War. In Nicaragua, the backlash to modernization took the form of the Sandinista Revolution which ousted President Anastasio Somoza Debayle in July 1979. In the wake of the earlier reconstruction of Managua after the devastating 1972 earthquake and instigated by the revolutionary shift of power in the city, the Sandinista Revolution incited radical changes that challenged the frankly ideological and economic motivations of modernization. In response to threats to its ideological dominance regionally and globally, the United States began to promote new paradigms of development built around human rights, entrepreneurial internationalism, indigenous rights, and sustainable development. Lee traces the ways Nicaraguans made their country central to the contest over development ideals beginning in the 1960s, transforming the way political and economic development were imagined worldwide. By illustrating how ideas about ecology and sustainable development became linked to geopolitical conflict during and after the Cold War, The Ends of Modernization provides a history of the late Cold War that connects the contest between the two then-prevailing superpowers to trends that shape our present, globalized, multi-polar world. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781501756221 9783110739084 9783110754001 9783110753776 9783110754087 9783110753851 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781501756221?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | David Johnson Lee. |