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From development to dictatorship : Bolivia and the alliance for progress in the Kennedy era / Thomas C. Field Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Field, Thomas C., Jr., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International relations.
- History.
- Bolivia--Politics and government--1952-1982.
- Bolivia.
- Politics and government.
- Bolivia--History--1952-1982.
- Bolivia--Social conditions--1952-1982.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Foreign relations--Bolivia.
- United States.
- Bolivia--Foreign relations--United States.
- Alliance for Progress.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 272 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801452604
- 0801452600
- OCLC:
- 861273993
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