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From development to dictatorship

Field, Thomas C., Jr.,

From development to dictatorship Bolivia and the alliance for progress in the Kennedy era / [electronic resource] : Thomas C. Field Jr. - London : Cornell University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780801470455


Alliance for Progress.


Bolivia--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--Bolivia.
Bolivia--Social conditions--1952-1982.
Bolivia--History--1952-1982.
Bolivia--Politics and government--1952-1982.


Electronic books.

F3326 / .F48 2014

984.05/2