{"product_id":"the-ends-of-modernization-nicaragua-and-the-united-states-in-the-cold-war-era-hardback-9781501756214","title":"The Ends of Modernization; Nicaragua and the United States in the Cold War Era (Hardback) 9781501756214","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Ends of Modernization\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNicaragua and the United States in the Cold War Era\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Johnson Lee (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501756214\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 August 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e270 pages, 12 b\u0026amp;w halftones, 3 maps - 3 Maps - 12 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e[Lee] focuses on internal Nicaraguan affairs, contextualizing American involvement without letting the US dominate his convincing analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLee 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Ends of Modernization\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670766416152,"sku":"9781501756214","price":41.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-ends-of-modernization-nicaragua-and-the-united-states-in-the-cold-war-era-hardback-9781501756214","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}