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OverviewThe 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. In the wake of the earlier reconstruction of Managua after the devastating 1972 earthquake and instigated by the revolutionary shift of power in the city, the Sandinista Revolution incited radical changes that challenged the frankly ideological and economic motivations of modernization. In response to threats to its ideological dominance regionally and globally, the United States began to promote new paradigms of development built around human rights, entrepreneurial internationalism, indigenous rights, and sustainable development. Lee traces the ways Nicaraguans made their country central to the contest over development ideals beginning in the 1960s, transforming how political and economic development were imagined worldwide. By illustrating how ideas about ecology and sustainable development became linked to geopolitical conflict during and after the Cold War, The Ends of Modernization provides a history of the late Cold War that connects the contest between the two then-prevailing superpowers to trends that shape our present, globalized, multipolar world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David Johnson LeePublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781501756214ISBN 10: 1501756214 Pages: 270 Publication Date: 15 August 2021 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Development, Ideology, and Catastrophe in the Americas The Alliance for Progress on the Doubtful Strait Decentering Managua Dis-integrating Rural Development Pluralism, Development, and the Nicaraguan Revolution Retracing Imperial Paths on the Mosquito Coast Institutionalized Precarity in Postwar Nicaragua Epilogue: Repetition, Alliance, and Protest in Contemporary NicaraguaReviews[Lee] focuses on internal Nicaraguan affairs, contextualizing American involvement without letting the US dominate his convincing analysis. * Choice * [Lee] focuses on internal Nicaraguan affairs, contextualizing American involvement without letting the US dominate his convincing analysis. * Choice * Author InformationDavid Johnson Lee teaches US and Latin American history in Philadelphia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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