How Long to Read From Development to Dictatorship

How Long Does it Take to Read From Development to Dictatorship?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 3 minutes to read From Development to Dictatorship by Thomas C. Field

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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 From Development to Dictatorship, Thomas C. Field Jr. reconstructs the untold story of USAID’s first years in Bolivia, including the country’s 1964 military coup d’état. Field draws heavily on local sources to demonstrate that Bolivia’s turn toward anticommunist, development-oriented dictatorship was the logical and practical culmination of the military-led modernization paradigm that provided the liberal underpinnings of Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress. In the process, the book explores several underappreciated aspects of Cold War liberal internationalism: the tendency of "development" to encourage authoritarian solutions to political unrest, the connection between modernization theories and the rise of Third World armed forces, and the intimacy between USAID and CIA covert operations. At the same time, the book challenges the conventional dichotomy between ideology and strategy in international politics, and it engages with a growing literature on development as a key rubric for understanding the interconnected processes of decolonization and the Cold War.

How long is From Development to Dictatorship?

From Development to Dictatorship by Thomas C. Field is 296 pages long, and a total of 75,776 words.

This makes it 100% the length of the average book. It also has 93% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read From Development to Dictatorship Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 54 minutes to read From Development to Dictatorship aloud.

What Reading Level is From Development to Dictatorship?

From Development to Dictatorship is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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