The Bolivian Revolution and the United States, 1952 to the Present
Title | The Bolivian Revolution and the United States, 1952 to the Present PDF eBook |
Author | James F. Siekmeier |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0271037792 |
"A study of United States-Bolivian in the post-World War II era. Explores attempts by Bolivian revolutionary leaders to both secure United States assistance and to obtain time and space to develop their policies and plans"--Provided by publisher.
United States Involvement in the Bolivian Revolution, 1952-1964
Title | United States Involvement in the Bolivian Revolution, 1952-1964 PDF eBook |
Author | Murray Newton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Bolivia |
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United States Involvement in the Bolivian Revolution, 1952-64
Title | United States Involvement in the Bolivian Revolution, 1952-64 PDF eBook |
Author | Murray Newton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Bolivia |
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A Revolution for Our Rights
Title | A Revolution for Our Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Gotkowitz |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2008-02-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822390124 |
A Revolution for Our Rights is a critical reassessment of the causes and significance of the Bolivian Revolution of 1952. Historians have tended to view the revolution as the result of class-based movements that accompanied the rise of peasant leagues, mineworker unions, and reformist political projects in the 1930s. Laura Gotkowitz argues that the revolution had deeper roots in the indigenous struggles for land and justice that swept through Bolivia during the first half of the twentieth century. Challenging conventional wisdom, she demonstrates that rural indigenous activists fundamentally reshaped the military populist projects of the 1930s and 1940s. In so doing, she chronicles a hidden rural revolution—before the revolution of 1952—that fused appeals for equality with demands for a radical reconfiguration of political power, landholding, and rights. Gotkowitz combines an emphasis on national political debates and congresses with a sharply focused analysis of Indian communities and large estates in the department of Cochabamba. The fragmented nature of Cochabamba’s Indian communities and the pioneering significance of its peasant unions make it a propitious vantage point for exploring contests over competing visions of the nation, justice, and rights. Scrutinizing state authorities’ efforts to impose the law in what was considered a lawless countryside, Gotkowitz shows how, time and again, indigenous activists shrewdly exploited the ambiguous status of the state’s pro-Indian laws to press their demands for land and justice. Bolivian indigenous and social movements have captured worldwide attention during the past several years. By describing indigenous mobilization in the decades preceding the revolution of 1952, A Revolution for Our Rights illuminates a crucial chapter in the long history behind present-day struggles in Bolivia and contributes to an understanding of indigenous politics in modern Latin America more broadly.
Bolivia
Title | Bolivia PDF eBook |
Author | James Dunkerley |
Publisher | University of London Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
This volume brings together essays written over three decades on Bolivian history and politics. The book opens with a contemporary survey of the new government of the MAS headed by Evo Morales. Subsequent chapters review the neoliberal experiments of the 1980s and 1990s, the strategic and intellectual failures of Che Guevara's guerrilla foco; the origins of the Revolution of 1952; explanations for the dominance of the caudillos of the 19th century; and the extraordinary story of Francisco Burdett O'Connor, whose life combined liberation struggles on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Bolivian National Revolution
Title | The Bolivian National Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Jackson Alexander |
Publisher | Greenwood |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Bolivia |
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The Bolivian National Revolution
Title | The Bolivian National Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Theodore Lewis Gordon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Bolivia |
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