Peace Corps Fantasies How Development Shaped the Global Sixties |
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| Author:
| Geidel, Molly |
| Series title: | Critical American Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8166-9222-4 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2015 |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $30.00 |
Book Description:
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In a provocative culturalhistory of the 1960s Peace Corps, Molly Geidel argues that the agency'srepresentative development ventures legitimated the violent exercise ofAmerican power around the world and the destruction of indigenous ways of life.
In a provocative culturalhistory of the 1960s Peace Corps, Molly Geidel argues that the agency'srepresentative development ventures legitimated the violent exercise ofAmerican power around the world and the destruction of indigenous ways of life.