From Development to Dictatorship : Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era /
Thomas C. Field.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Map of South America, Early 1960s -- Map of Bolivia, Early 1960s -- Introduction: Ideology as Strategy -- 1. Modernization's Heavy Hand: The Triangular Plan for Bolivia -- 2. Development as Anticommunism: The Targeting of Bolivian Labor -- 3. "Bitter Medicine": Military Civic Action and the Battle of Irupata -- 4. Development's Detractors: Miners, House wives, and the Hostage Crisis at Siglo XX -- 5. Seeds of Revolt: The Making of an Antiauthoritarian Front -- 6. Revolutionary Bolivia Puts On a Uniform: The 1964 Bolivian Coup d'État -- Conclusion: Development and Its Discontents -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index