Bolivia and the United States: A Limited Partnership (The United States and the Americas Ser.)

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This comprehensive account of U.S.-Bolivian relations presents startling contrasts between the histories, mythologies, and economies of the two countries, debunking the pop-culture myth that Bolivia is a poorer and not more up to date version of the US. Kenneth D. Lehman focuses primarily on the countries’ relationship all the way through the twentieth century, highlighting periods when Bolivia became important to the US as a provider of tin all the way through World War II, as a potential source of regional instability all the way through the Cold War, and as a supplier of cocaine to the U.S. market in contemporary years. Whilst the partnerships forged in these situations have been rooted in mutual self-interest, the US was once―and is―clearly dominant. Again and again, the U.S. policy toward Bolivia has moved from assistance to frustration and imposition, and the Bolivian response has intensified from submission to resentment and resistance. Bolivia and the US presents an illuminating discussion of the real in addition to mythical bonds that link these most distant and different neighbors, concurrently providing an abundance of evidence to show how factors of culture and power complicate and limit true partnership.

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