From development to dictatorship Bolivia and the alliance for progress in the Kennedy era / Thomas C. Field Jr.

Author/creator Field, Thomas C.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoIthaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Descriptionxix, 272 pages ; 24 cm
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 243-262)and index
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LCCN 2013038571
ISBN9780801452604 (cloth : alk. paper)

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