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A revolution for our rights : indigenous struggles for land and justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952
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Analyzes struggles over citizenship and nationhood in Bolivia, following the fate of subaltern projects for political inclusion and asking why ethnic/racial claims were more effectively incorporate...
Analyzes struggles over citizenship and nationhood in Bolivia, following the fate of subaltern projects for political inclusion and asking why ethnic/racial claims were more effectively incorporated into the revolutionary agenda than were gender demands.
Details
- Creator
- Laura Gotkowitz
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (416 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9786613023278, 0822390124, 9780822340492, 9780822340676, 0822340674, 9780822390121, 0822340496, 128302327X
- OCLC
- on1140943163, ocn271168176
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-384) and index.
- English
- The peculiar paths of the liberal project -- Indigenista statecraft and the rise of the caciques apoderados -- "In our provinces there is no justice" : caciques apoderados and the crisis of the liberal project -- The problem of national unity : from the Chaco War to the 1938 Constitutional Convention -- The unruly countryside : defending land, labor rights, and autonomy -- The unwilling city : Villarroel populism and the politics of mestizaje -- "The disgrace of the Pongo and the Mitani" : the 1945 indigenous congress and a law against servitude -- "Under the dominion of the Indian" : the 1947 cycle of unrest -- Conclusion and epilogue : rethinking the rural roots of the 1952 revolution