Laura Gotkowitz

A Revolution for Our Rights

Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 166mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780822340492
• ISBN-10: 0822340496
• Artikelnr.: 22888918

Autorenporträt

Laura Gotkowitz

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. The Peculiar Paths of the Liberal Project 17
2. Indigenista Statecraft and the Rise of the Caciques Apoderados 43
3. "In Our Provinces There Is No Justice": Caciques Apoderados and the
Crisis of the Liberal Project 69
4. The Problem of National Unity: From the Chaco War to the 1938
Constitutional Convention 101
5. The Unruly Countryside: Defending Land, Labor Rights, and Autonomy 131
6. The Unwilling City: Villarroel Populism and the Politics of Mestizaje
164
7. "The Disgrace of the Pongo and the Mitani": The 1945 Indigenous Congress
and a Law against Servitude 192
8. "Under the Dominion of the Indian": The 1947 Cycle of Unrest 233
Conclusion and Epilogue: Rethinking the Rural Roots of the 1952 Revolution
268
Notes 291
Bibliography 359
Index 385