Bolivia and the United States : a limited partnership

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Persönlicher Verfasser:

Lehman, Kenneth Duane, 1947-

Information zur Veröffentlichung:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1999.

Format:

Bücher

Serie:

United States and the Americas

Physische Beschreibung:

xviii, 296 p. : 1 map ; 24 cm.

Geographischer Begriff:

United States -- Relations -- Bolivia.

Bolivia -- Relations -- United States.

ISBN:

9780820321158

9780820321165

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Bibliothek	Materialtyp	Regalnummer	Anzahl untergeordneter Datensätze	Regalstandort	Status	Item Holds
Suche... Science	Book	303.48 L528B 1999	1	Stacks	Suche... Unknown	Suche... Unavailable

An account of US-Bolivian relations, presenting startling contrasts between the histories, mythologies and economies of the two countries, and debunking the pop-culture myth that Bolivia is a poorer and less modern version of the United States.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
1. Most Different of Neighbors	p. 1
2. Most Distant of Neighbors	p. 29
3. Center, Periphery, and the Tin Nexus	p. 60
4. Bolivian Dilemma and a Pragmatic Experiment	p. 91
5. The Limits of Pragmatism and the Disintegration of a Special Partnership	p. 114
6. The National Security State and the Limits of Hegemony	p. 147
7. Frontier Myths, Cocaine Dependency, and Limits to the American Dream	p. 180
Epilogue	p. 217
Notes	p. 227
Bibliographical Essay	p. 277
Index	p. 287

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