From development to dictatorship : Bolivia and the alliance for progress in the Kennedy era /
Thomas C. Field Jr.
- Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies 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.