Bolivia and the United States : a limited partnership

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Personal Author:

Lehman, Kenneth Duane, 1947-

Publication Information:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1999.

Format:

Books

Series:

United States and the Americas

Physical Description:

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

Geographic Term:

United States -- Relations -- Bolivia.

Bolivia -- Relations -- United States.

ISBN:

9780820321158

9780820321165

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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.

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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