From Development to Dictatorship

by Thomas C. Field Jr.

During the most idealistic years of John F. Kennedy's Alliance for Progress development program, Bolivia was the highest per capita recipient of U.S. foreign aid in Latin America. Nonetheless, Washington's modernization programs in early 1960s' Bolivia ended up on a collision course with important sectors of the country's civil society, including radical workers, rebellious students, and a plethora of rightwing and leftwing political parties. In...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801452600
• ISBN13: 9780801452604
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher