Geo Maher

We Created Chávez

A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

This history of Venezuelan politics from below tells how militants, students, women, Afro-indigeneous peoples, and the working-class brought about Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution and, ultimately, brought Hugo Chávez to power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780822354390
• ISBN-10: 082235439X
• Artikelnr.: 36693387

Autorenporträt

Geo Maher

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Map of Venezuela xii
Introduction. What People? Whose History? 1
1. A Guerrilla History 22
2. Reconnecting with the Masses 45
3. Birth of the "Tupamaros" 67
First Interlude. The Caracazo: History Splits in Two 88
4. Sergio's Blood: Student Struggles from the University to the Streets 105
5. Manuelita's Boots: Women between Two Movements 126
6. JoséLeonardo's Body and the Collapse of Mestizaje 146
Second Interlude. Every Eleventh Has Its Thirteenth 166
7. Venezuelan Workers: Aristocracy or Revolutionary Class? 180
8. Oligarchs Tremble! Peasant Struggles at the Margins of the State 200
9. A New Proletariat? Informal Labor and the Revolutionary Streets 218
Conclusion. Dual Power against the Magical State 234
Notes 257
Index 307