{"product_id":"the-ends-of-modernization-9781501756214","title":"The Ends of Modernization","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ends of Modernization\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003estudies the relations between Nicaragua and the United States in the crucial years during and after the Cold War.\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 Revo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[Lee] focuses on internal Nicaraguan affairs, contextualizing American involvement without letting the US dominate his convincing analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Development, Ideology, and Catastrophe in the Americas\u003cbr\u003e The Alliance for Progress on the Doubtful Strait\u003cbr\u003e Decentering Managua\u003cbr\u003e Dis-integrating Rural Development\u003cbr\u003e Pluralism, Development, and the Nicaraguan Revolution\u003cbr\u003e Retracing Imperial Paths on the Mosquito Coast\u003cbr\u003e Institutionalized Precarity in Postwar Nicaragua\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Repetition, Alliance, and Protest in Contemporary Nicaragua\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409352171863,"sku":"9781501756214","price":43.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501756214.jpg?v=1730506520","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-ends-of-modernization-9781501756214","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}