Overview
- Offers a new perspective on how the global Cold War impacted local communities in South America
- Focuses on how local actors and agencies shaped the experiences of Peace Corps volunteers, and in turn the Peace Corps itself, its training strategies, and its relationships with foreign institutions worldwide
- Examines Peace Corps volunteers as intermediaries, rather than unidirectional agents of American influence
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Book Title: The Peace Corps in South America
Book Subtitle: Volunteers and the Global War on Poverty in the 1960s
Authors: Fernando Purcell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24808-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24807-9Published: 09 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24810-9Published: 09 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-24808-6Published: 23 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 180
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Latin American History, US History, Political History, World History, Global and Transnational History