The Peace Corps in South America Volunteers and the Global War on Poverty in the 1960s /

• Main Author: Purcell, Fernando (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Latin America-History.; United States-History.; World politics.; World history.; Latin American History.; US History.; Political History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.

In the 1960s, twenty-thousand young Americans landed in South America to serve as Peace Corps volunteers. The program was hailed by President John F. Kennedy and by volunteers themselves as an exceptional initiative to end global poverty. In practice, it was another front for fighting the Cold War a...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Peace Corp Volunteers as Intermediary Agents in the Global War on Poverty
• 2. Learning to Learn: Community-Development Training during the 1960s
• 3. Confront Poverty Beforehand
• 4. South America's Fertile but Different World
• 5. Difficulties and Frustrations on the Ground
• 6. Volunteers in the Middle of Cold War Ideological Struggles
• 7. Epilogue: De-centering Cold War Narratives Using Peace Corp Volunteer´s Accounts.