Backbone of a Nation or Tentacles of US Empire? Infrastructure Development in Bolivia in the 1940s

October 19, 2020, at the Linda Hall Library
Mira Kohl, PhD candidate in History at Tulane University and Linda Hall Library Research Fellow, explores the role of the United States in the development of lowland Bolivia during the 1940s, which would consistently spark concerns over U.S. economic imperialism and the limits of Bolivian sovereignty.