Examines the socioeconomic ramifications of a Bolivian peasant community's progressive incorporation into the international cocaine market

In the late nineteenth century, the disintegration of the silver-mining economy that had survived since the colonial period effected fundamental economic and so

Bolivia is an unusually high-altitude country created by imperial conquest and native adaptions – today, it remains one of the most multi-ethnic societies in

Details the rich culture and history of the South American country of Bolivia.

Argues that a history of drugs is a study of cultures in competition.