Acknowledgments

This project would never have come to fruition without the incredible guidance, support, and confi dence bestowed on me by mentors, friends, family, and colleagues. It is an honor to be able to express my appreciation for all the people whose encouragement over the years has made this book possible.

I began working on this project as a doctoral student at New York University in the late 1990s—a magical place populated and inspired by a brilliant assembly of faculty and students. A special thank you to Jamie Wilson and Mireille Miller-Young, who went through the program with me and whose joy for life, intellectual camaraderie, and friendship have anchored me ever since. For sharing the fun of intellectual community and exchange, thank you Valeria Coronel, Betsy Esch, Christopher Winks, Kim Gilmore, Dayo Gore, Bryant Terry, Forrest Hylton, Jasmine Mir, Peter Hudson, Eric McDuffi e, Orlando Plaza, Rich Blint, Daniel Inouyé, Adria Imada, Julie Sze, Grace Wang, Victor Viesca, Hillina Seife, Sobukwe Odinga, Michelle Chase, Dan Rood, David Kinkela, Seth Markle, Ted Sammons, Khary Polk, Njoroge Njoroge, and Kobi Abayomi.

I am deeply indebted to Robin D. G. Kelley for his generosity of spirit, intellectual rigor, and political commitment—a beautiful person whose example since my undergraduate days has shaped the kind of scholar I aspire to be, and whose support has helped me get to where I am today. A warm thank you to Sinclair Thomson for consistently

believing in the value of this work, and for his gentle guidance as I grappled with my ideas and sought out people and archives in Peru and Bolivia. Marilyn Young, Greg Grandin, Michael Gomez, Ada Ferrer, Allen Hunter, and Jeremy Adelman all provided mentorship and models of scholarship of worldly consequence.

Walter Johnson’s graduate seminar on American capitalism provided the critical space for this project’s genesis, and a decade later being a fellow at Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History for a year under his and Vincent Brown’s able stewardship helped me transform the research into this book—I am grateful for both. Our wonderful cohort of fellows—Patrick Wolfe, Marisa Fuentes, Kristen Block, Paul Kramer, Joshua Guild, Cynthia Young, Gunther Peck, and Edward Rugemer—brought good humor, intellectual imaginings, lunchtime bonding, and dance-fi lled evenings that sustained my efforts and continue to fortify and inspire. And thank you to Larissa Kennedy and Arthur Patton-Hock for taking such good care of us during our residency.

I have benefi ted from participating in both formal and informal exchanges with numerous scholars whose own work, insightful comments, critical questioning, and interest in the project challenged me in important and productive ways—while some of those providing this feedback did not agree with my premise or conclusions, the book has benefi ted enormously from many moments of lively intellectual discussion and debate. For all of this I need to shout out, in no particular order, Pablo Morales, Michael Fox, and Christy Thornton of the North American Congress on Latin America, Nikhil Pal Singh, David Roediger, Laura Briggs, Linda Farthing, Jesse Freeston, Mary Renda, Adam Rothman, Brian DeLay, Amy Greenberg, David Kazanjian, Joseph Nevins, Mark Weisbrot, Rachel St. John, Sven Beckert, Alison Frank Johnson, Bruce Schulman, Brooke Blower, Bethany Moreton, Stephen Mihm, Shane Hamilton, Colleen Dunlavy, Sarah Haley, Allan Kulikoff, Jessica Lepler, Steve J. Stern, Francisco Scarano, Jeremi Suri, William Cronon, Florencia Mallon, Alfred W. McCoy, Nan Enstad, Stephen Kantrowitz, Brenda Gayle Plummer, Mark G. Hanna, Christine Hunefeldt, John Marino, Luis Alvarez, Daniel Widener, Takashi Fujitani, Everade Meade, Michael Monteon, Michael Parrish, Nathaniel Lee Smith, Matt R. Pembleton, Daniel Weimer, Jeremy Kuzmarov, Jonathan V. Marshall, William B. McAllister, William O. Walker III, Brian O’Connor, and the anonymous reviewers of my book manuscript.

I am thankful for the support and intellectual stimulation I received from a wonderful group of friends and scholars that I have met at the

University of Hawai’i Ma -noa, including Cyndi Franklin, Matt Romaniello, Ned Bertz, Becky Pulju, Marcus Daniel, Vina Lanzona, Noelani M. Arista, Wensheng Wang, Shana Brown, Rich Rath, Kieko Matteson, Mimi Henriksen, Bob McGlone, Herb Zeigler, Jim Kraft, Jerry Bentley, Dick Rapson, Matt Lauzon, Kim Lauzon, Ned Davis, David Chappell, Leonard Andaya, Yuma Totani, David Hanlon, Karen Jolly, Jun Yoo, Elizabeth Colwill, Peter Arnade, Vernadette Gonzalez, Robert Perkinson, Mari Yoshihara, Ming-Bao Yue, Wimal Dissannayake, John Rieder, Christina Bacchilega, Laura Lyons, Richard Nettell, Craig Howes, Ruth Hsu, Yun Peng, John Zuern, Monisha Das Gupta, Hokulani Aikau, Lois Horton, Johanna Almiron, Anthony Johnson, Jonathon Osorio, Joy Logan, David Stannard, Patricio Abinales, Mari Matsuda, Charles Lawrence, John Charlot, Loriena Yancura, Paul Holtrop, Paul Lyons, and Monica Ghosh.

I am especially grateful to Niels Hooper at the University of California Press for his backing of this project, along with the staff there whose skills have made the editing process smooth and enjoyable — Kim Hogeland, Wendy Dherin, and Kate Hoffman, thank you. Thanks to Paul Tyler for his editing prowess, and to Sebastaian Araya for sharing his considerable talents as a cartographer. Thank you to all the people who helped me acquire the necessary permissions for images contained in the text, especially Richard Sorensen of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Eisha Neely of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University, and Annie Rothstein-Segan, who graciously allowed me to reproduce a photograph from her father’s collection.

In addition to the sources already mentioned, this project was made possible with fi nancial support from numerous institutions including New York University’s Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, NYU’s Department of History, NYU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, NYU’s International Center for Advanced Studies’ Project on the Cold War as Global Confl ict, and the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center. I am also grateful for grants received from Princeton University’s Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, the University of Hawai’i Ma -noa’s University Research Council, and support received from UH’s Department of History. These funds enabled me to visit numerous archives, libraries, and private collections in Europe, the United States, and South America. I am forever indebted to the amazing librarians and archivists who deftly helped me navigate the historical record. Of special note are Fred Romanski and Tab Lewis at

the US National Archives and Records Administration, who brought to my attention the records of the Board of Economic Warfare, and Mr. P. Massaoutis at the World Health Organization in Geneva, who let me occupy his offi ce pouring over records for hours. I am also thankful for the warmth and generosity of Marcos Cueto, who welcomed me into his home and personal archives in Lima, Peru, at a critical formative stage of the work. Thanks are also due to Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, whose home in La Paz is an important oasis for activists and scholars working to decriminalize coca and advocate for indigenous rights. Thank you to Dr. Fernando Cabiesis, Dr. Uriel García Cacerés, Jaime Durand, Rafael Fernández Stoll, Rossana Barragán, and Alison L. Spedding, for taking the time to speak with me about their own historic involvement with the politics of coca and drugs in the Andes. Much respect to my fellow traveler and friend Hernan Pruden, who showed me the living archive of the coca market in Bolivia, introduced me to the art of coca leaf chewing, and brought me to fi estas where life in the Andes is constantly renewed.

It is a great pleasure to acknowledge the immeasurable sustenance I have received from friends and family over the years. I would like to say a special thank you to Giovanni Vitiello for his friendship, sense of humor, and the joy and laughter he so easily keeps alive. Thank you to Christy Ringor and Greg Chun for keeping it realer, for feeding me, and for bringing a beautiful future revolutionary into the world. Thank you to Katti Wachs, Meredith Sterling, Will Lara, and Haik Hoisington for believing in me and for friendships I will always treasure. Thank you to Stan Pyrzanowski and the Rhythm Method for all the music and good times. Thank you to the Njoroge family for all the support. Thank you to my mother, Jean Reiss, and my brothers, Matthew and Justin, for indulging my intellectual explorations and sharing in the love and hilarity of life. Thank you to Patricia Hilden, whose political passion and astute eye have always inspired and guided my own belief in the power of academics to make a real difference in the world. Thank you to my amazing father, Timothy Reiss, who taught by example the value of hard work, and whose love has always given me strength. And thank you to Njoroge Njoroge, the love of my life.