From development to dictatorship [electronic resource] : Bolivia and the alliance for progress in the Kennedy era / Thomas C. Field Jr.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: London : Cornell University Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9780801470455
- 984.05/2 23
- F3326 .F48 2014
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.
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