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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794540503321

Autore

Lee David Johnson <1978->

Titolo

The ends of modernization : Nicaragua and the United States in the Cold War era / / David Johnson Lee [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021

ISBN

9781501756221

1-5017-5622-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 254 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

The United States in the world

Cornell scholarship online

Disciplina

327.7307285

Soggetti

United States Foreign relations Nicaragua

Nicaragua Foreign relations United States

Nicaragua Politics and government 1937-1979

Nicaragua Politics and government 1979-1990

Nicaragua Politics and government 1990-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Also issued in print: 2021.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Alliance for Progress on the Doubtful Strait -- 2. Decentering Managua -- 3. Dis-integrating Rural Development -- 4. Pluralism, Development, and the Nicaraguan Revolution -- 5. Retracing Imperial Paths on the Mosquito Coast -- 6. Institutionalized Precarity in Postwar Nicaragua -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

'The Ends of Modernization' studies the relations between Nicaragua and the United States in the crucial years during and after the Cold War. David Johnson Lee charts the transformation of the ideals of modernization, national autonomy, and planned development as they gave way to human rights protection, neoliberalism, and sustainability. Using archival material, newspapers, literature, and interviews with historical actors in countries across Latin America, the United States, and Europe, Lee demonstrates how conflict between the United States and Nicaragua shaped larger international development policy and transformed the Cold War. In Nicaragua, the backlash to modernization took the form of the Sandinista Revolution which ousted President



Anastasio Somoza Debayle in July 1979.