Bolivia and the alliance for progress in the Kennedy era /
Thomas C. Field Jr
xix, 272 pages ;
24 cm
The United States in the world
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-262)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