In the years after 1945, a flood of U.S. advisors swept into Latin America with dreams of building a new economic order and lifting the Third World out of poverty. By the 1960s, they had remade the country's housing projects, river valleys, and universities. In this groundbreaking book, the author shows the entanglement of American societies and the contradictory promises of midcentury statebuilding.
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In the years after 1945, a flood of U.S. advisors swept into Latin America with dreams of building a new economic order and lifting the Third World out of poverty. By the 1960s, they had remade the country's housing projects, river valleys, and universities. In this groundbreaking book, the author shows the entanglement of American societies and the contradictory promises of midcentury statebuilding.
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