LEADER 03568nam 22005655 450 001 9910484281903321 005 20200703084053.0 010 $a3-030-24808-9 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-24808-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000009076320 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5880714 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-24808-6 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009076320 100 $a20190823d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Peace Corps in South America $eVolunteers and the Global War on Poverty in the 1960s /$fby Fernando Purcell 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (187 pages) 311 $a3-030-24807-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction: Peace Corp Volunteers as Intermediary Agents in the Global War on Poverty -- 2. Learning to Learn: Community-Development Training during the 1960s -- 3. Confront Poverty Beforehand -- 4. South America's Fertile but Different World -- 5. Difficulties and Frustrations on the Ground -- 6. Volunteers in the Middle of Cold War Ideological Struggles -- 7. Epilogue: De-centering Cold War Narratives Using Peace Corp Volunteerīs Accounts. 330 $aIn the 1960s, twenty-thousand young Americans landed in South America to serve as Peace Corps volunteers. The program was hailed by President John F. Kennedy and by volunteers themselves as an exceptional initiative to end global poverty. In practice, it was another front for fighting the Cold War and promoting American interests in the Global South. This book examines how this ideological project played out on the ground as volunteers encountered a range of local actors and agencies engaged in anti-poverty efforts of their own. As they negotiated the complexities of community intervention, these volunteers faced conflicts and frustrations, struggled to adapt, and gradually transformed the Peace Corps of the 1960s into a truly global, decentralized institution. Drawing on letters, diaries, reports, and newsletters created by volunteers themselves, Fernando Purcell shows how their experiences offer an invaluable perspective on local manifestations of the global Cold War. 606 $aLatin America?History 606 $aUnited States?History 606 $aWorld politics 606 $aWorld history 606 $aLatin American History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/718020 606 $aUS History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/718010 606 $aPolitical History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911080 606 $aWorld History, Global and Transnational History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/719000 615 0$aLatin America?History. 615 0$aUnited States?History. 615 0$aWorld politics. 615 0$aWorld history. 615 14$aLatin American History. 615 24$aUS History. 615 24$aPolitical History. 615 24$aWorld History, Global and Transnational History. 676 $a309.223573 676 $a362.5098 700 $aPurcell$b Fernando$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01079540 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484281903321 996 $aThe Peace Corps in South America$92592100 997 $aUNINA