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The Peace Corps in South America : volunteers and the global war on poverty in the 1960s / Fernando Purcell.
Lippincott Library HC60.5 .P87 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Purcell Torretti, Fernando, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peace Corps (U.S.).
- Economic assistance, American--South America--History.
- Economic assistance, American.
- Poverty--South America.
- Poverty.
- Cold War.
- Relations.
- History.
- United States--Relations--South America.
- United States.
- South America--Relations--United States.
- South America.
- United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
- International relations.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 180 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Volunteers and the global war on poverty in the 1960s
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
- Summary:
- "In the 1960s, 20,000 young Americans landed in South America to serve as Peace Corps volunteers. The program was hailed by President John F. Kennedy and by volunteers themselves as an exceptional initiative to end global poverty. In practice, it was another front for fighting the Cold War and promoting American interests in the Global South. This book examines how this ideological project played out on the ground as volunteers encountered a range of local actors and agencies engaged in anti-poverty efforts of their own. As they negotiated the complexities of community intervention, these volunteers faced conflicts and frustrations, struggled to adapt, and gradually transformed the Peace Corps of the 1960s into a truly global, decentralised institution"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783030248079
- 3030248070
- OCLC:
- 1104219782
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